Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Taiwan tensions likely to dominate Biden-Xi virtual talks” – below is their description.
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a virtual meeting at a time of escalating tensions between the two countries.
Taiwan and the human rights issues in Hong Kong are at the heart of deepening discord between Washington and Beijing.
Both sides seem to want to move from confrontation to cooperation, but they still must agree upon the next steps.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Washington, DC.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.