Honeymoon over for HK leader before it’s begun as China’s Hu visits
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao oversees the swearing-in of Hong Kong‘s embattled leader on Sunday, stepping beyond his comfort zone of staid one-party rule in Beijing into a former British colony used to scandal and raucous protest.
Hong Kong is a liberal, global financial centre agitating for full democracy in 2017, making it both an asset and a potentially dangerous precedent for China where people are becoming increasingly intolerant of rights abuses and curtailed freedoms.
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