Macao's return showed 'wisdom'

Xi, visiting Portuguese president see accords signed on range of interests

On his first visit to China in two decades, Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva found the prosperity before him the best proof of the wisdom he and then-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping showed in 1987.

Cavaco Silva, at the time the Portuguese prime minister, signed in Deng's presence in Beijing a joint declaration on the return of Macao to Chinese sovereignty. Portugal returned Macao to China in December 1999.