FOCUS: Hong Kong's former No. 2 Lee seen certain to win leadership race

The Hong Kong government's former No. 2, John Lee, has all but won the city's leadership election slated for May 8 after securing nominations by a majority of the Election Committee members who will cast votes, with no other candidates in the running.Lee, a security hard-liner and the candidate favored by Beijing, is expected to govern the city under further tightened control as he pledged to enact a previously shelved bill on treason and theft of state secrets that have not been criminalized by a national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020.The avid proponent of the law, which has been…READ FULL ARTICLE