HONG KONG: China’s ambassador to Britain warned on Wednesday of “chaos” in Hong Kong if pro-democracy campaigners go ahead with a plan to occupy the city center, and dismissed their calls for the public to nominate candidates in leadership elections.

Discontent in Hong Kong is at its highest level in years over what is seen as increasing interference from China and Beijing’s insistence that it vet candidates before the vote for the city’s next chief executive in 2017.

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