China imposes new rules on Hong Kong, opposition resign

China has tightened its stranglehold on Hong Kong, with Beijing labelling anyone who supports independence "unpatriotic" and forbidding them from sitting on the legislative council. The new rule resulted in four lawmakers being immediately struck from the council, prompting the remaining 15 pro-democracy legislators to resign en masse. One legislator called it the "death-knell" for Hong Kong's fight for democracy; another said it gives China complete jurisdiction over Hong Kong, in defiance of the "one country, two systems" arrangement that's been in place since Chinese rule resumed in 1997. Hong Kong-born American activist Samuel Chu, from the Hong Kong Democracy Council, told our producer Matthew Theunissen that the dissolution of Hong Kong's opposition leaves it a failed state.