Posted on 02/18/2020 5:38:40 PM PST by marshmallow
Xia Baolong is a long-time ally of Xi Jinping who represents a sign Beijing wants to exert more control over the city
A hardliner notorious for the demolition of thousands of Christian crosses on churches has been appointed the new head of China’s office in Hong Kong, a sign that Beijing aims to further tighten control over the semi-autonomous city, analysts say.
Xia Baolong, an ally of president Xi Jinping, has been appointed director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office under the State Council, replacing Zhang Xiaoming, State media reported on Thursday. His appointment came amid a purge of officials in Hubei, the province wracked by the coronavirus outbreak.
Zhang has become the most senior Beijing-appointed official to lose his job in the wake of months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong. The city has been roiled by more than seven months of protests over an extradition bill that would have allowed suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial. Coronavirus: China purges regional leaders hours after spike in deaths and cases Read more
Xia was Xi’s deputy when he was the Communist party’s secretary of the affluent province of Zhejiang from 2003 to 2007. Xia was known for his hardline ideology in a 2014 campaign to tear down thousands of crosses and many underground churches in the province while he later took charge of Zhejiang as its party secretary – a post he held until 2017. He became a vice chairman and secretary general of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in 2018.
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Try the mosques and then see what happens.
Are we surprised?
No.
No, we are not.
Does China allow islam?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Bro it’s China. Everyone knows they treat muslims horrifically.
Well almost everyone.
I don’t lose sleep over it, but they treat most religions the same - as a threat
Just what are these Christians doing that is so threatening to the authorities?
I’ll bet these Christians are some of the best citizens, hard working, honest, and even supporting of the govt, in some sense.
President Xi Jinping thinks he is god. I suppose the threat is that those who do not believe in Xi Jinping are causing all the problems that China experiences. In Xi’s mind. While it is Xi’s opposition to the real God that is causing his problems.
Sneeze on the phucker!
A refusal to worship the government. That was the Roman's problem, a refusal to worship Roma Dia was treason in their eyes. You could be the best and most productive citizen around and if you didn't dump wine on an altar to worship the deified city of Rome they would kill you.
Things have not changed in 2000 years.
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