Commentary
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping recently wrapped up his trip to Hong Kong marking the 25th anniversary of Britain handing the city over to China. Notably, both Xi and the official media avoided mentioning two key figures in the CCP takeover of Hong Kong, a rare occurrence in the past 25 years.
Until last year, the mouthpiece media made a statement on each previous handover anniversary mentioning former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and Hong Kong’s first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, who have long been called “historical participants” in the transfer of the autonomous region that occurred on July 1, 1997….