The Hong Kong press dons the colors of China this 1is July, sporting the red of the celebrations of the 25e anniversary of the handover of the British colony. All the newspapers devote their front page to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival speech in the special administrative region (SAR) on June 30. It has known since its last visit five years ago, many vicissitudes, said the Chinese president, before launching:
“’One country, two systems’ is a good system.”
Le Ming Pao makes this sentence its title of the 1is July and devotes its entire front page to the event: a single photo of Xi Jinping on the podium, and at the bottom of the page, a group photo of the local personalities whom Xi met the day before.
In an editorial, the daily states: “Hong Kong-style capitalism must be reformed, ’50 years without change’ [promis par la Chine au moment de la rétrocession] are not shields.” The editorial cites the social problems experienced by the RAS as proof of this, citing the “tr