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In Hong Kong, the pro-China parties have won the parliamentary elections as expected. Critics of the current government are talking about fake elections because virtually all pro-democracy candidates were banned from the electoral lists. Turnout was historically low at just 30 percent.   Yesterday's parliamentary elections were the first after the significant protest movement for more democracy and less influence from the Chinese government in Hong Kong. In the second half of 2019, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest for months until the corona pandemic put an end to that. Hong Kong is an urban region that was a British colony for a long time. In 1997, the region rejoined China under "one country, two systems". Hong Kong was promised special rights and freedo...