Xi told Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, whose term expires next year, that having loyal leaders was the only way to ensure the city’s stability, state media said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said that Hong Kong must be governed by “patriots,” in the latest sign of Beijing’s focus on tightening control over the semi-autonomous Asian financial center.
Tochinoumi, who was the oldest living yokozuna, died Friday from a type of lung infection known as aspiration pneumonia at the age of 82, a Japan Sumo Association official said.
Tochinoumi, whose real name was Shigehiro Hanada, made his sumo debut in 1955 and was .
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A University of Hong Kong survey published Thursday revealed a nearly 20-percent drop in interest among Hong Kong residents in receiving any vaccine against the Chinese coronavirus between November and January, and that less than one-third of those living in the city would take a vaccine China developed.
The survey revealed rapidly growing distrust in the city of both Hong Kong officials and their masters in Beijing, a distrust that had initially led to protests in 2019 against a proposed law to allow extraditions into China and culminated in China illegally imposing its laws on the nominally autonomous city.
Under the policy known as “One Country, Two Systems,” the government of Hong Kong cannot legally declare independence from China, and the Chinese Communist Party cannot impose laws passed in Beijing onto Hong Kong, allowing the city to persist as a bastion of free speech and enterprise following the United Kingdom’s surrender of the territory to China in 199