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Editor's note
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As Hong Kong prepares for another round of protests this weekend, the Chinese paramilitary build up just across the bridge in Shenzhen has raised alarm bells around the world. Photos show tanks lined up in the city’s sports stadium, with reports of police performing crowd-control exercises. The burning question: what is Beijing going to do now?
In a piece commissioned by my colleague Justin Bergman in Melbourne, security researcher Adam Ni at Macquarie University predicts that things are going to come to a head very soon.
He explains the different parts of Beijing’s multi-pronged strategy in response to the Hong Kong protests, trigged by opposition to an extradition law. Beijing has backed the embattled government of Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, asserted influence on pro-establishment business people and stepped up its propaganda and misinformation war.
Now Beijing’s military posturing is a message of deterrence for protestors, even if we are not yet at the point of imminent military intervention, Ni writes. But Hong Kong is a long-term matter and while Beijing’s goal is to gradually tighten its grip on Hong Kong, it may have already lost the city for good.
Elsewhere on The Conversation, read some history lessons for Beijing from a British colonial era uprising and why the militancy of the protestors has unnerved the Chinese government.
This is a rapidly developing story and we’ll bring you analysis and explanations of events in Hong Kong from across The Conversation’s global network as they happen.
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Gemma Ware
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