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Hong Kong Is Becoming Ground Zero in the New Cold War
//If Hong Kong falls, the long arm of the Chinese Communist Party will expand further.
//it is a step that serves no oneās interest, including the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) itself.
//For Hong Kong as a whole, the move delivers a death blow to its century-long status as a separate legal jurisdiction, which is the very foundation of its economic success, freedom, and human rights...Itās also bad news for the establishment, as Chinaās decision to bypass the Hong Kong legislative process is a vote of no-confidence in the previous model of indirect rule... will find themselves increasingly sidelined under a new direct-rule approach from the center.
//For the West, this step rings the death knell for their presence in Hong Kong. Western companies are going to lose the only Western-oriented business center within Chinese territories and their business interests will no longer be well protected by the British-style common law jurisdiction....international nongovernment organizations (INGOs), media branches, and intelligence operations are also at risk of being uprooted by Chinaās heavy hand. The West...may forever lose its foothold in the door of China.
//Hong Kong is Chinaās āfinancial lifeline,ā functioning as its single most important source of foreign capital since the founding of the Peopleās Republic... Chinese companies are already on the brink of being expelled from the U.S. capital market and dozens of Chinese companies have been forced to plan secondary listings in Hong Kong. Therefore Chinaās push for a national security law in Hong Kong will only burn its own bridge to the world and add pressure to the vulnerable Chinese economy
//such a lose-lose decision is that it fits with the Chinese nationalist agenda of the Xi Jinping regime. Facing unprecedented challenges at home and abroad... it is comprehensible that the Xi regime would choose to shift the blame to āforeign forcesā by playing up its Chinese nationalist card.
//Xi seems to have prioritized the nationalist fervor to control Hong Kong over utilitarian calculations of the territoryās financial contribution.
//By placing pragmatism over nationalist fervor, China provided the room for Hong Kong to function as a geopolitical buffer zone from the Cold War to the post-Cold War period.
//the Xi regime seems to have no interest in keeping Hong Kong as its buffer zone with the West. Driven by a nationalist political agenda, Xi instead sees Hong Kong as the frontline battlefield in the new Cold War with the United States.
//New waves of street fights will happen from now on all the way through the anniversaries of key dates... The extensive disqualification of democratic candidates in Septemberās Legislative Council election looks inevitable; the election itself may be postponed. A local financial crisis is also looming as a consequence of the massive outflow of local, mainland, and foreign capital from Hong Kong and expectations of the partial (if not complete) revocation of Hong Kongās special treatment by the United States.
//the fanning of aggressive Chinese nationalism into wider geopolitical conflicts. History tells us that nationalist ambition, once mobilized, will likely develop into ever-more aggressive territorial claims.
//A war between China and the United States is no longer unimaginable.
Source: The Diplomat, (25-May)
https://thediplomat.com/countries/hong-kong/
Further reading:
China is preparing for WAR - Xi Jinping in terrifying alert after global backlash
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1287163/China-news-world-war-three-xi-jinping-latest
#ColdWar #HongKong #China #West #US #NationalSecurityLaw #CCP
Hong Kong Is Becoming Ground Zero in the New Cold War
//If Hong Kong falls, the long arm of the Chinese Communist Party will expand further.
//it is a step that serves no oneās interest, including the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) itself.
//For Hong Kong as a whole, the move delivers a death blow to its century-long status as a separate legal jurisdiction, which is the very foundation of its economic success, freedom, and human rights...Itās also bad news for the establishment, as Chinaās decision to bypass the Hong Kong legislative process is a vote of no-confidence in the previous model of indirect rule... will find themselves increasingly sidelined under a new direct-rule approach from the center.
//For the West, this step rings the death knell for their presence in Hong Kong. Western companies are going to lose the only Western-oriented business center within Chinese territories and their business interests will no longer be well protected by the British-style common law jurisdiction....international nongovernment organizations (INGOs), media branches, and intelligence operations are also at risk of being uprooted by Chinaās heavy hand. The West...may forever lose its foothold in the door of China.
//Hong Kong is Chinaās āfinancial lifeline,ā functioning as its single most important source of foreign capital since the founding of the Peopleās Republic... Chinese companies are already on the brink of being expelled from the U.S. capital market and dozens of Chinese companies have been forced to plan secondary listings in Hong Kong. Therefore Chinaās push for a national security law in Hong Kong will only burn its own bridge to the world and add pressure to the vulnerable Chinese economy
//such a lose-lose decision is that it fits with the Chinese nationalist agenda of the Xi Jinping regime. Facing unprecedented challenges at home and abroad... it is comprehensible that the Xi regime would choose to shift the blame to āforeign forcesā by playing up its Chinese nationalist card.
//Xi seems to have prioritized the nationalist fervor to control Hong Kong over utilitarian calculations of the territoryās financial contribution.
//By placing pragmatism over nationalist fervor, China provided the room for Hong Kong to function as a geopolitical buffer zone from the Cold War to the post-Cold War period.
//the Xi regime seems to have no interest in keeping Hong Kong as its buffer zone with the West. Driven by a nationalist political agenda, Xi instead sees Hong Kong as the frontline battlefield in the new Cold War with the United States.
//New waves of street fights will happen from now on all the way through the anniversaries of key dates... The extensive disqualification of democratic candidates in Septemberās Legislative Council election looks inevitable; the election itself may be postponed. A local financial crisis is also looming as a consequence of the massive outflow of local, mainland, and foreign capital from Hong Kong and expectations of the partial (if not complete) revocation of Hong Kongās special treatment by the United States.
//the fanning of aggressive Chinese nationalism into wider geopolitical conflicts. History tells us that nationalist ambition, once mobilized, will likely develop into ever-more aggressive territorial claims.
//A war between China and the United States is no longer unimaginable.
Source: The Diplomat, (25-May)
https://thediplomat.com/countries/hong-kong/
Further reading:
China is preparing for WAR - Xi Jinping in terrifying alert after global backlash
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1287163/China-news-world-war-three-xi-jinping-latest
#ColdWar #HongKong #China #West #US #NationalSecurityLaw #CCP
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How China spies on the West
In December last year Oxford University students were offered Ā£15,000 in prize money if they could solve challenges relating to the surveillance and tracking of devices and their users.
āHuawei welcomes a selection of top-of-the-class students to their 2021 University Challengeā, the invitations read. The company added that the technology would be used for ābusiness intelligenceā and āsecurity servicesā.
Source: Spectator #Jan23
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-china-spies-on-the-west?fbclid=IwAR1uNQE1q646I6-sY8OKU0MuXJ6bYHxSEnFqy6zBH13N2BJA56XBQJ2oC0s
#China #West #Oxford #Huawei
In December last year Oxford University students were offered Ā£15,000 in prize money if they could solve challenges relating to the surveillance and tracking of devices and their users.
āHuawei welcomes a selection of top-of-the-class students to their 2021 University Challengeā, the invitations read. The company added that the technology would be used for ābusiness intelligenceā and āsecurity servicesā.
Source: Spectator #Jan23
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-china-spies-on-the-west?fbclid=IwAR1uNQE1q646I6-sY8OKU0MuXJ6bYHxSEnFqy6zBH13N2BJA56XBQJ2oC0s
#China #West #Oxford #Huawei