Originally, the division’s website read: “Since the handover of sovereignty over Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, a number of foreign state or government leaders have visited Hong Kong.”
The sentence now begins, simply, “Since July 1, 1997”.We all knew this was inevitable.The protocol office would not comment on whether the word “handover” had conflicted with previous guidelines.
Government rewrites history of Hong Kong’s 1997 handover, one inconvenient phrase at a time | South China Morning Post