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"“Beijing is to some degree also grandstanding as the political winds back home in China appear to be increasingly angry against the protesters, and taking a hard line like this over the protesters plays well,” he said. “This escalatory rhetoric reflects Beijing’s unhappiness with what is going on and the Hong Kong government’s inability to bring this situation to a conclusion.” "

Beijing unlikely to intervene in Hong Kong but police under pressure to end protests, analysts say

Another Chinese Defence White Paper: What Impact on the UK?

Veerle Nouwens

China’s latest defence white paper repeats many concepts already known but does include a number of interesting novelties.

Shashoujian, or, the Way of the Dragon

Manabrata Guha

Historical Chinese military concepts still exert a profound influence over the country’s current military modernisation.

"“China sees Central Asia first and foremost as a way of stabilising Xinjiang. But it is also a testing ground for China’s foreign policy and the country’s ability to push into Russia’s normative space," says Raffaello Pantucci of the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank in London. China is rewiring the whole region. All roads used to lead to Moscow. Now all roads lead to Beijing,” "

How Vladimir Putin’s embrace of China weakens Russia

"On China, many Muslim countries appear to be singing the same tune. "China's treatment of parts of its Muslim population is not a partisan issue in the Arab world," said HA Hellyer, senior associate fellow at Royal United Services Institute in London and the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. "Even if they disagree on a whole slew of other issues, such as the (Gulf Arab) crisis, Syria, Yemen, Iran and so forth," said Hellyer, "no Muslim leader in the Arab world or the wider region, including Turkey, seems to have much compunction about lining up alongside Beijing." "

Muslim nations are defending China as it cracks down on Muslims, shattering any myths of Islamic solidarity

"Still, Lam chose the worst possible moment to try to rush the bill through and “badly mismanaged” the issue, wrote the former British diplomat Charles Parton, a senior associate fellow at the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute. Not only did it virtually coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown—traditionally marked by heightened emotions and a public vigil in Hong Kong—but it was equally risky to court potential unrest so close to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1, 1949. "

Ich Bin Ein Hong Konger