China’s Xi to visit Hong Kong for handover anniversary


              FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, looks at Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Carrie Lam after administering the oath for a five-year term in office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong on July 1, 2017. Xi will visit Hong Kong this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's 1997 return to China, a state news agency said Saturday, June 25, 2022, in his first trip outside the mainland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic 2 1/2 years ago. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
            
              FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, administers the oath to Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Carrie Lam's new cabinet in office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong on July 1, 2017. Xi will visit Hong Kong this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's 1997 return to China, a state news agency said Saturday, June 25, 2022, in his first trip outside the mainland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic 2 1/2 years ago. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
            
              FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the People's Liberation Army soldiers at a camp in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017. Xi will visit Hong Kong this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's 1997 return to China, a state news agency said Saturday, June 25, 2022, in his first trip outside the mainland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic 2 1/2 years ago. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
            
              FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Carrie Lam attend the ceremony of administering the oath for a five-year term in office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong on July 1, 2017. Xi will visit Hong Kong this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's 1997 return to China, a state news agency said Saturday, June 25, 2022, in his first trip outside the mainland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic 2 1/2 years ago. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)