{"id":90334,"date":"2016-05-12T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=90334"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:23:30","slug":"word-play-in-beijings-hong-kong-game-worrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/word-play-in-beijings-hong-kong-game-worrying\/","title":{"rendered":"Word play in Beijing’s Hong Kong game worrying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loyalists may dismiss it as an over-interpretation of a change of wordings. But the use of the word \u201cinspection (\u8996\u5bdf)\u201d by China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency to describe the upcoming visit of NPC chairman Zhang Dejiang to Hong Kong cannot be taken lightly.<\/p>\n

It is yet another worrying sign of the Beijing leadership magnifying the importance of the principle of \u201cone country\u201d while downgrading the special status of Hong Kong. It raises the question of whether the city will become \u201cjust another Chinese city\u201d ultimately as pessimists and sceptics have warned.<\/p>\n

Political observers and pundits have good reason to feel something weird when they read a Xinhua report about the visit of Zhang to the city between next Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

The story\u2019s headline says: Zhang will attend the \u201cOne Belt, One Road\u201d top-level forum and \u201cinspect\u201d the Hong Kong SAR. Previous reports carried by the official media normally used \u201cvisit\u201d or \u201cfact-finding\u201d visit to describe those trips. They include the visits by President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to the city in 2008 and 2011 respectively.<\/p>\n

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