Xi’s zero-Covid message has implicit warning against Hong Kong drifting from the mainland

In Hong Kong’s old days of people smuggling, it was mostly one-way traffic; poor mainland Chinese would sneak across the border or take boats in the middle of the night across the choppy waters to seek a better life in the city.That is why news of a group of at least 15 Hong Kong residents taking a high-powered tai fei speedboat to Zhuhai in the small hours of Monday morning, purportedly to escape the latest coronavirus outbreak, has gone viral on the Chinese internet.Two young women in the…

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