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A National Interest article
by Ira Straus
Chair, Center for War-Peace Studies
Hong Kong was declared in 1997 an autonomous “system” within China, but it was always more than that. A decade of threats from China since 2008 has driven the difference to grow further: from distinctive society into a distinctive nation.
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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-needs-imperial-realism-hong-kong-96666