China, Xi Jinping in Hong Kong on the first trip since the pandemic: “One country, two systems’ has a strong vitality”

BEIJING – “Hong Kong has risen from the ashes”. Among super-strengthened security measures in cities, the specter of an oncoming typhoon expected for tomorrow and the ban on at least a dozen journalists – local and foreign – to participate in the ceremony, after 893 days of Chinese President Xi Jinping locked up in the Great Wall left mainland China.