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July 31, 2019

What's behind Beijing's press briefing on Hong Kong

Live radio interviews with ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio

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July 30, 2019

Now that Beijing has spoken, what next for the Hong Kong protests?

Live interviews with ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio

Live Interview on ABC Radio on 30 July, 2019

TV interview with PressTV on 30 July, 2019

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Another day (28th) of violent protests spreading to several districts on Hong Kong island

Live interview with RT on 29 July, 2019

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July 28, 2019

Night of triad-infested protests in Hong Kong's Yuen Long rural areas

Live interview on BBC World News on 27 July 2019 regarding Hong Kong's anti-extradition protests spreading to the New Territories, of which Yuen Long, a thriving rural-turned-urban area, forms a part. The area retains a number of closely-knit traditonal village conclaves resistant to outside intruders.

The threat of militant protesters to "liberate" some of these villages by creating protest "Lennon Walls" led to a bloody clash with black-clad urban protesters in the night of the 21st. Many innocent passengers were beaten on a mass transit train where scuffles took place. Both sides were suspected of triad ("mafia") involvement. The police has been accused of collusion.

Inflamed by what happened in Yuen Long a week ago, the current protests claimed to amass some 280,000 protesters in defiance of Police refusal to issue a permit for the assembly. What seems to be happening is a serious breakdown of law and order. There are suspicions of involvement of foreign "agent provocateurs" with ulterior motives of destablizing the Hong Kong and Bejing governments.

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The Value of Global China - how multilateralism may tip the balance

Jonathan Woetzel, McKinsey senior partner and director of the McKinsey Global Institute and Jeongmin Seong, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute in Shanghai, together penned an insightful analysis in Project Syndicate on 9 July, 2019. It posits that -

"At a time when the risks of international engagement are more obvious than ever, China faces important questions about whether – and to what extent – it should continue to pursue opening up its economy to the rest of the world. At stake may be some $22-37 trillion in economic value – or 15-26% of world GDP – by 2040."

A lot depends on not only how successfully China liberalizes its services and financial markets, but also how well the rest of the world supports a global multilateral trading system, in particular, allowing technology to flow across boundaries relatively unimpeded.

On the latter count, there are genuine national security concerns with Huawei, China's 5G global tech giant, for example. It is instructive how France addresses this conundrum with a mixer of legislation, regulation, and high vigilance instead of an outright ban. Click here

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