Hong Kong crisis tests confidence in Xi Jinping’s iron grasp | World News, The Indian Express

Hong Kong crisis tests confidence in Xi Jinping’s iron grasp | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Beijing |Published: September 8, 2019 1:41:43 pm

Hong Kong crisis tests confidence in Xi Jinping’s iron grasp

As public anger in Hong Kong has climbed, the Chinese government’s response has grown bombastic and now seems at times erratic. In July, at a meeting that has not been publicly disclosed, Xi met with other senior officials to discuss the protests.

Only it is Xi himself and his government facing criticism that they are mishandling China’s biggest political crisis in years, one that he did not mention in his catalog of looming risks at the start of the year. (AP)

Written by Steven Lee Myers, Chris Buckley and Keith Bradsher