Warm welcome: Xi meeting some elementary school pupils after he arrived at the Macau International Airport. — AFP
MACAU: President Xi Jinping visited a drizzly Macau for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub’s return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas – the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.
The two-day trip to the former Portuguese enclave comes just days after Hong Kong police cleared the last of three camps where protesters had spent nearly three months demanding free leadership elections for the city.
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