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HONG KONG – It wasn’t just the dark-suited delegates in Beijing who were listening intently last week as Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined his grand ambitions to launch a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress.
On China’s peripheries there was apprehension and optimism as Xi, China’s strongest leader in decades, reasserted his authority over semiautonomous Hong Kong and self-governing Taiwan.
Xi declared that Hong Kong, where residents are increasingly divided over Beijing’s rule of the former British colony, and Taiwan, where voters elected an independence-leaning president last year amid rising alienation from the mainland, are part of a “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” led by the Communist Party.
Here’s a look at what people on the two islands told The Associated Press about the party congress:
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