Peter Harris, National Interest: Tiananmen Option: Would China Use Military Force in Hong Kong?
If push comes to shove, then overwhelming force might yet be viewed by Beijing as necessary to avoid imperiling the regime as a whole.
Will Xi Jinping deploy the People’s Liberation Army to suppress the peaceful protests in Hong Kong, or will Beijing opt for a more conciliatory approach to quieting the unrest that has rocked the city for the past several months? So far, China has refrained from pursuing the so-called “Tiananmen option” in Hong Kong, instead relying on local police and criminal gangs to mete out nonlethal violence against the city’s pro-democracy protesters. But if the movement for political reform in Hong Kong continues to gather strength—or if it shows signs of spreading to the Chinese mainland—then it might be difficult for China’s panicked leaders to resist using overwhelming force to crush the dissention.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 19, 2019
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India’s place in US security architecture -- Manoj Kumar Mishra, Asia Times
It Matters If Americans Call Afghanistan a Defeat -- Jim Golby & Peter Feaver, The Atlantic
Afghanistan: Is 'Islamic State' taking advantage of US-Taliban peace talks? -- Masood Saifullah, DW
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President Hernandez must end repression of protests in Honduras -- Erika Guevara-Rosas, Al Jazeera
Wide implications as Germany teeters toward recession -- David Rising, AP
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The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed -- Sophia Ignatidou, The Guardian
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More evil liberal trial balloons
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Remember those fucking"invest in China"ads that were on cnn for like the last few years? ?? Like what the fuck! The arch enemies of Trump want to invest us in China. Am I the only one seeing this money trail? China was Cnn's biggest sponsor for the last few years and no one reports on this obvious conflict of interest! Where are the serious journalists? ??
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