Hong Kong voters turned out in record low numbers for a legislative election held Sunday — the first election under a draconian new law that only allows pro-Beijing candidates to run for office. Just 30% of Hong Kong’s 4.4 million eligible voters cast ballots in the so-called patriots-only election.

Tse Kwok Keung: “There are no voices from the opposition side. If there are even just some opposing opinions, they would send signals to Hong Kong and China to indicate what Hong Kong people are thinking. But now there will not be much of these signals.”