LOWERING THE FLAGS. Chinese and Hong Kong flags are lowered to half-staff, following the death of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, at Central Government Offices in Hong Kong, China, on December 1, 2022. Jiang Zemin's death prompts a wave of nostalgia for the relatively more liberal times he oversaw Chinese newspapers turned their front pages black on Thursday, December 1, and flags were put at half mast in mourning for the death of former president Jiang Zemin, while well-wishers laid piles of bouquets outside his childhood home. Jiang died in his home city of Shanghai just after noon on Wednesday...