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Xi rejects Hong Kong pro-democracy demands, backs chief exec
December 27, 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping today virtually rejected pro-democracy agitators' demand for free elections in Hong Kong in 2017 and backed embattled Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying who came in for severe criticism during the recent protests in the former British colony.
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