[NTDTV, Beijing time, July 02, 2022]When Li Jiachao, the new chief executive of Hong Kong, delivered his inaugural speech on July 1, Xi Jinping, Carrie Lam and other officials in the audience were caught dozing with their eyes closed, causing heated discussions.
On July 1 this year, Hong Kong held the 25th anniversary of the handover of sovereignty and the inauguration ceremony of the sixth Hong Kong SAR government. General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping visited Hong Kong on June 30 to attend the 25th anniversary of the handover of sovereignty, but the details of his visit to Hong Kong were extremely confidential, not only official Xi’s visit to Hong Kong has not been made public for a long time, and he will not be staying overnight in Hong Kong to and from Shenzhen on the same day.
The next day (July 1), Xi arrived in Hong Kong by high-speed rail from Shenzhen to preside over the inauguration ceremony of the new Hong Kong government officials. The new Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao delivered a 13-minute inaugural speech that day.
However, according to the leaked footage, many key players in the audience seem to have “fallen asleep”. Including the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping, the recently retired Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her husband Lin Zhaobo, as well as the Hong Kong Security Bureau Secretary Deng Bingqiang and others, all closed their eyes and took a nap.
Political scientist Wang Hao posted on Facebook a photo of Xi Jinping suspected of taking a nap during the ceremony, and exclaimed: “Xi Jinping fell asleep at the Hong Kong celebration? Running back to Shenzhen last night, lack of sleep?”
Some netizens speculated that Xi Jinping and others happened to be blinking when the picture was taken. But some netizens said, “This is not a (blink) eye, that tilted head posture is in line with the appearance of sleeping in a meeting”
Some analysts believe that it is unlikely that multiple officials were photographed blinking at almost the same time. In particular, Lin Zhengyue’s husband, Lin Zhaobo, almost slipped off his chair, indicating that he had slept soundly.
Some experts have analyzed that Xi Jinping’s visit to Hong Kong this time is very careful, he has to go back to Shenzhen even to sleep, and the security has been fully upgraded, which shows that Xi Jinping has at least three fears.
Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of Japan’s “Sankei Shimbun”, posted on Facebook that Xi Jinping “is afraid of contracting the virus? Is he afraid of assassination? Is he afraid of a coup d’etat in the country after he goes out? It has aroused everyone’s infinite reverie.”
But current political commentator Professor Zhang Tianliang believes that “what Xi Jinping is really afraid of is the people of Hong Kong.”
Zhang Tianliang analyzed in the “Dawn Time” program “Politics in the World“, “Although Xi Jinping’s security is very tight, countless CCP military and police agents have surrounded Xi Jinping, so that he does not come into contact with Hong Kong people. But the military and police agents can’t separate bullets. It can keep bricks, eggs, etc., but it cannot keep away the grievances of 7 million people in Hong Kong.”
Zhang Wuyue, an associate professor at the Mainland China Institute of Tamkang University in Taiwan, told the Central News Agency that from the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and the anti-extradition movement in 2019 to the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong in 2020, among all age groups in Hong Kong, young people are the least interested in Beijing Central. Satisfied with the lowest identity, I believe this is the key work of the central government in Beijing and the Hong Kong government in the future.
(Reporter Wen Rui comprehensive report / Responsible editor: Deming)
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