Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong before the United Kingdom ceded control of the island to China in 1997, claimed that China’s…
Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong before the United Kingdom ceded control of the island to China in 1997, claimed that China’s renewed focus on cracking down on Hong Kong protestors is because President Xi Jinping is “nervous” about the future of the Chinese Communist Party.
According to Reuters, Patten claimed President Xi has felt the insecure about the position of the communist party due to both international outrage over the Middle Kingdom’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in the city of Wuhan, as well as criticism in his own nation about the economic impact of the country’s trade war with the United States.
“One reason Xi Jinping is whipping up all this nationalist feeling about Hong Kong, about Taiwan and about other issues, is that he is more nervous than any official would allow about the position of the Communist Party in China,” Patten claimed.
