Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Hong Kong to celebrate next week’s 25th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China following a crackdown on a pro-democracy movement that has inflamed tension with Washington and Europe.
That has prompted warnings the ruling party is ruining Hong Kong’s status as a global business and financial center.
Activists and foreign governments say Beijing has reneged on that commitment. The United States suspended agreements that treated Hong Kong as a separate territory for trade, saying the city no longer had enough autonomy from control by Beijing. Since the Hong Kong handover, ordinary people in the territory have struggled with soaring living costs that inflamed political tension.
Those sentenced to prison include Jimmy Lai, former publisher of the defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, and Hong Kong’s 90-year-old former Roman Catholic bishop, Joseph Zen.
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