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Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to attend the 20th anniversary of the Portuguese colony's handover to China this Friday, December 20. A ceremony which for Beijing is also an opportunity to present a counter-model to Hong Kong, that of a loyal and patriotic special administrative region.
From our correspondent in Beijing,
Guided tours, reports, interviews, the Chinese state media released the image canon on the occasion of this anniversary.
A glance at the 20 Museums of #Macao 🇲🇴 v @CGTNOfficial
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With its culinary specialties, its tourist charters, its casinos rich in millions, its colors too and its smiles that overflow the screen, Macau is presented as the inverted mirror of its rebel neighbor: Hong Kong and its millions of demonstrators in black , who for the past six months have been chanting their dislike for local authorities and the central government.
Xi Jinping first visited the old Portuguese counter ten years ago. A "Xuanfeng" visit according to propaganda, literally a "typhoon" visit bringing "happiness, luck and confidence" to this confetti of territory, 30 km2 hanging in the southeast of China.
In 20 years, the capital of slot machines has hit the jackpot: 5.7 billion euros of GDP in 1999, more than 49 billion euros today.
Macau is considered to be at the top of the ranking list of the Better Life Index because #Macao citizens receive a lot of welfare every year. pic.twitter.com/iaIE4bZ71c
China Daily (@ChinaDaily) December 17, 2019Reinforced controls on social networks
She also accepted all the changes requested by the plan. The law on national security in 2009. Confirmation of pro-Beijing candidates in the elections in 2017. A year later, the anthem and the Chinese flag are incorporated into the basic law. And from December 22, controls will be reinforced on social networks with the entry into force of the law on internet security and the identity associated with the telephone number, just before the progressive implementation of the facial recognition next year.
Unlike in Hong Kong, in Macao the reforms passed like the brush on the rice paper… gently. The embryonic pro-democracy movement was quickly contained. So that at only one hour by ferry, the two territories no longer seem to share the same values ​​today.
José Carlos Matias, President of the Macao Portuguese and English Press Journalists Association 12/19/2019 - by Miguel Martins Listen
"You really have to understand that Macau's society is immediately very different from that of Hong Kong."