"One Country, Two Systems" Becomes a Scandal: Xi Jinping's Unusual Moves in Macau
On December 18, Xi Jinping attended the so-called 25th anniversary of Macau's handover to China and the inauguration ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR). Xi declared that Macau's version of "One Country, Two Systems" had achieved "great succ
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