This Is the Hardliner China Chose to Oversee Hong Kong Security
- Beijing taps Zheng Yanxiong, veteran of 2011 Wukan uprising
- Dabbled in art, urban planning before powerful security role
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Artist. Propagandist. Urban planning enthusiast. Traditional Chinese medicine student. Zheng Yanxiong doesn’t fit the usual mold of a top Communist Party security agent.
Zheng’s eclectic background suggests someone who will bring a broad approach to running the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, the powerful and secretive agency China created to implement a new security law in the former British colony. The office will “oversee and provide guidance” to Hong Kong authorities and be accountable to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government.