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Hong Kong deploys massive security as China’s Xi Jinping prepares to swear in new leader

Hong Kong deploys massive security as China’s Xi Jinping prepares to swear in new leader

 


Authorities deployed a massive security force around Hong Kong on Friday as Chinese President Xi Jinping prepared to be sworn in as the city’s new leader and attend celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the former British colony’s handover in Beijing.

Red lanterns and posters declaring a ‘new era’ of stability decorated main roads and walkways near the convention center where the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, tearfully returned Hong Kong to China in a ceremony in the rain in 1997.

At 08:00 (00:00 GMT), a group of officials gathered near Victoria Harbor for a flag-raising ceremony in windy conditions as the city experienced its first typhoon this year. Helicopters flew over the port waving the flags of China and Hong Kong.

Xi did not attend the flag-raising event, with media reporting that he spent the night across the border in Shenzhen after arriving in Hong Kong on Thursday. He is due back in the financial center early Friday to swear in the city’s new leader, John Lee.

Some analysts see Xi’s visit as a victory tour after Beijing tightened its control over Hong Kong with a sweeping national security law, following mass pro-democracy protests in 2019.

After arriving in Hong Kong on Thursday, Xi said the city had overcome its challenges and was “rising from the ashes”.

Former Hong Kong security chief John Lee, who is sanctioned by the United States for his role in implementing new national security law, takes charge at a time when the global financial center faces an exodus of people and talent amid some of the toughest COVID -19 restrictions in the world.

Xi’s trip to Hong Kong is his first since 2017, when he was sworn in to the city’s first female leader, Carrie Lam, who oversaw some of the territory’s most tumultuous periods marked by anti-government protests in 2019 and the COVID epidemic.

Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, under a “one country, two systems” formula that guarantees broad autonomy and judicial independence unheard of in mainland China.

Critics of the government, including Western countries, accuse the authorities of flouting these freedoms, which Beijing and Hong Kong deny.

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