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...Xi last visited Hong Kong in 2017 when Lee’s predecessor, Carrie Lam, began what proved to be a tumultuous term....
...tom.mitchell@ft.com...
...Xi did not join Lee and his predecessor, Carrie Lam, for a traditional outdoor flag-raising ceremony, which took place despite strong winds and a typhoon warning....
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Singapore...
...Mitchell tells me she “easily” saw more than 10 adoptions a month two years ago....
...primrose.riordan@ft.com, thomas.chan@ft.com, tom.mitchell@ft.com...
...The Hong Kong government has been forced by Beijing to adopt a “dynamic zero-Covid” strategy after Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, prioritised reopening the city’s border with China over the rest...
...Chinese policy advisers and state media have publicly criticised the Hong Kong government, led by chief executive Carrie Lam, over the past week for failing to hold the line on Beijing’s “zero Covid” policy...
...Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, announced that elections to elect a new leader would be postponed from March 27 to May 8, an indication that authorities expected the outbreak to persist....
...WhatsApp and Facebook groups are now full of residents looking to leave over worries that families will be separated if placed in quarantine, after Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, announced mandatory...
...Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, revealed on Thursday that she was weighing unprecedented mandatory, citywide Covid testing for the territory’s 7.4mn residents with help from the mainland government...
...Jeffrey Lam, an adviser to the de facto cabinet of chief executive Carrie Lam, says: “There is still [talent] coming to Hong Kong. But . . . it seems that a [few] more people are leaving the city....
...Additional reporting by Primrose Riordan in Sydney and Tom Mitchell in Singapore Letter in response to this article: The shame of Tiananmen Square is not easily erased / From John de Clef Piñeiro, New...
...How else to explain newspapers’ soap opera recounting of gossip about Meghan Markle and Carrie Johnson?...
...In Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, chief executive, said Omicron’s emergence in China would not change plans to reopen the city’s border with the mainland....
...Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, has chosen the latter option. Under the current political circumstances, it is hard to imagine Lam doing anything else....
...and about Carrie,” he wrote online....
...Some Hong Kong banks have refused to take deposits and other business from officials sanctioned by the US, including Carrie Lam, the territory’s chief executive, who complained last year that she was stuck...
...“To calm things down, Carrie Lam needed to do two things,” said Simon Cartledge, author of a book about Hong Kong’s political economy, A System Apart....
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