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Beijing has occupied Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay as the headquarters of its National Security Office in Hong Kong, local police confirmed.
The hotel is a perfect spot to observe the Victoria Park, where annual candlelight vigils were held to commemorate those who died in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK reported that the hotel’s icon has been removed and replaced with China’s national emblem. Capitalism under “two systems” with Chinese characteristics.
The probably most luxuriously headquartered office of China’s State Council is led by Zheng Yanxiong, formerly in charge of quelling protests in neighbouring Guangdong province. He once famously said: “Pigs will fly before the foreign press can be trusted” google.com/amp/s/amp.scmp…
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