The latest criticism came from Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak, who called a cartoon strip of Wong’s “distorting” and “unethical.” His three-panel strip, published Tuesday, showed a man saying Hong Kong’s community representatives will be chosen “as long as the leader finds them suitable” even if they do not pass their exams and health checks.
The strip followed last week’s government announcement of reforms to the district council election that drastically reduce the number of elected seats to just one-fifth of all seats, with the rest to be either appointed by the government or selected by committees staffed by pro-establishment figures.