Xi’s Tough Medicine for Hong Kong
Members of the public line up at a Covid-19 testing facility in Hong Kong on Feb. 8.
Photographer: Paul Yeung/BloombergChinese President Xi Jinping won’t let Hong Kong stray far from the motherland. Not on politics, not on Covid-19.
If Xi’s determination to draw the former British colony closer to Beijing wasn’t already clear, his directive to Hong Kong leaders to contain surging infections removes any doubt.
Xi ordered the city to take “all necessary measures” to halt omicron, a rare intervention in local affairs that came less than a day after Chief Executive Carrie Lam acknowledged the outbreak had overwhelmed her government.