Published: January 19th, 2023,
Last updated: January 19th, 2023
The Communist leadership has sent a clear signal with the appointment of Zheng Yanxiong as the new head of the Beijing Liaison Office in Hong Kong. Zheng, who is known as a hardliner, succeeds Luo Huining. Zheng is notorious for his crackdown on a mass protest in Wukan in 2011, a village in Guangdong Province, which borders Hong Kong, where the now 59-year-old had accused residents of „collaborating with foreign media to cause trouble“.