Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday swore in new Macao leader Ho Iat Seng at a ceremony where he heaped praises on the special administrative region, while warning that Beijing would not allow foreign influences to interfere with Macao and Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Under the "one country, two systems" structure, its citizens are granted some degree of financial and legal independence from the mainland. Neighboring Macao, a former Portuguese colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1999, operates under the same structure.
While Hong Kong has been rocked by anti-establishment protests for months, Macao's calm has made it the poster child for China's "one country, two systems" framework. "Macao's ability to really execute the 'one country, two systems'; this is a total concept. You have to respect the 'one country' notion but at the same time, the central people's government helps Macao to realize the 'two systems.' So I think Macao is a very good example of how 'one country, two systems' can work," said Wilfred Wong, president of Sands China.
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