The most high-profile Chinese leader to travel to Hong Kong since the Occupy protests promised to “see, listen and speak” on a visit that comes at a time of simmering tensions between Beijing and the semi-autonomous territory.
Zhang Dejiang, head of China’s legislature and the third most powerful leader after President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, arrived amid high security designed to shield him from protesters.
Pro-democracy Occupy demonstrators spent three months on the streets of Hong Kong in 2014 opposing Beijing’s plan for electoral reform.
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