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🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨 In my latest piece for The Diplomat, I explore the dramatic changes in Hong Kong since the 2019 pro-democracy protests, mentioned in my latest @ConGeostrategy briefing on #HongKong.
Read the full article at thediplomat.com/2024/08/how-…
🔒 Erosion of Freedoms: The National Security Law and Article 23 have dismantled pro-democracy groups and stifled civil liberties.
📉 Economic Challenges: A mass exodus and economic slowdown have hampered recovery despite efforts to attract mainland Chinese residents.
🌐 Geopolitical Implications: Hong Kong is now a testing ground for Beijing's global ambitions, including financial ties with the Middle East and serving as a trading hub for allies like Russia and North Korea.
⚖️ Dysfunctional Governance: The absence of pro-democracy lawmakers has led to dysfunctional governance and strained public reserves.
🏙️ Changing Demographics: The influx of mainland Chinese is reshaping Hong Kong's cultural and social fabric.
#Geopolitics #Economy #Governance #NationalSecurity #ProDemocracy
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Read the latest article by @GraySergeant, our Research Fellow, on what the recent elections in the UK and France mean for British and French foreign policy 👇
由英國智庫地緣戰略委員會印太地緣政治研究員Gray Sergeant撰寫【The French and UK Elections: What Do They Mean for their Foreign Policy】
2024 Prospects & Perspectives No. 40
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What is the best approach for the new strategic defence review to take? 🇬🇧
We asked seven experts for their thoughts in today’s Big Ask...
✍️ @bbaxendalesmith, Neil Brown, Sir Michael Fallon, @paulmasonnews, @JAParker29, @annietrev and Adm. The Lord West
britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-b…
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In this Memorandum, @RJohnsonCCW1 explains how money alone won’t solve Britain’s defence gap 🇬🇧
‘Long term, the steady costs of adequate defence are the smallest price to pay.’
britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-m…
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Four Chinese Coast Guard ships intruded into restricted waters near the outlying islands of Kinmen. It's the third such incursion this month.
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China warns von der Leyen is "playing with fire" on Taiwan
Political guidelines by @vonderleyen for the next @EU_Commission contain gross interference into #China’s internal affair. Playing with fire on #Taiwan is highly dangerous. Meddling and even trying to join forces is by no means a right choice for #Europe.
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The latest edition of ‘Observing China’ is out now! 📩
🇹🇼 Trump’s Taiwan slam
💻 Chinese censors to ensure socialist AI
📰 Selina Cheng fired
🇩🇪 Germany sort-of ditches Huawei
Read more and subscribe to the newsletter here 👉 chinaobservatory.substack.co…
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In this Memorandum, @JohnHemmings2 and @DavidSantoro1 explain why NATO should cover Hawaii 🌎
‘...it is astonishing that Hawaii’s exclusion from the Washington Treaty is not, at a minimum, an agenda item at the summit.’
britainsworld.org.uk/p/memor…
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The first duty of my government is to keep our country safe.
I look forward to meeting the UK’s closest allies at the #NATOSummit in Washington D.C. tomorrow.
ALT Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer as they board the plane to head to the NATO Summit in Washington D.C.
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Last week, we relaunched #BritainsWorld on @substack! Sign up to receive our content. We’ll publish our first Cable tomorrow, with a roundup of British foreign policy, how others frame the #UK, and important @RoyalNavy deployments... britainsworld.org.uk/
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China confiscates Taiwanese fishing vessel ft.com/content/e24fdad4-4b8e… via @ft
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"Labour has chosen to keep its Indo-Pacific cards close to its chest. Success for a future British government in the region will require dexterity and a robust understanding of what regional players want" buff.ly/3RRR4gK | by @Discoplomacy
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“Perhaps this ugly incident, which has once again exposed the Faustian nature of UK-China relations, could act as an impetus for a flourishing of British-Taiwanese twinning agreements.” #Edinburgh 🇬🇧🇹🇼 spectator.co.uk/article/how-…
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🚨 NEW NEWSLETTER: OBSERVING CHINA 🚨
📰 Latest China-related news
🔍 Expert insight
🏢 Parliamentary updates
🇨🇳 Chinese narratives on the UK
🇹🇼 Cross-strait relations
Subscribe now for all the latest on UK-China relations 📩
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Excellent op-ed by @GraySergeant about the latest council to kowtow to the #CCP's demands.
We agree that other #Scotland council leaders should show solidarity with @Edinburgh_CC by exploring opportunities to develop ties with #Taiwan.
Beijing's threats appear to have scuppered a proposed friendship agreement between Edinburgh City Council and Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan. My latest piece for
@spectator spectator.co.uk/article/how-…
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"It's a big building full of sick people, but that's not important right now"
Princess Anne and Hungarian footballer both in hospital with concussion - so what is it?
Read more 🔗 trib.al/AwKEacO
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China’s reckless actions at Second Thomas Shoal are deeply concerning, but why is Beijing challenging the Philippines so dangerously while permitting massive Vietnamese land reclamation elsewhere in the Spratlys?
From me and @GregPoling in @WarOnTheRocks:
warontherocks.com/2024/06/th…
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We are delighted to announce the launch of our China Observatory!
This new initiative seeks to monitor the Chinese Communist Party’s activities and to guide HM Government in the formulation of a coherent ‘China policy’ 🇨🇳
#ChinaObservatory 👇
geostrategy.org.uk/china-obs…
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🚨 NEW RESEARCH 🚨
‘China’s PLAN: Maritime dominion beyond the South China Sea’
In this new Policy Paper, @salisbot investigates the build-up and modernisation of the Chinese navy and its implications for the geopolitics of the South China Sea 🇨🇳🌏
👇
geostrategy.org.uk/research/…
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Taiwan’s political precipice: Foreign policy heavyweights weigh in, as island welcomes a new leader
🔗 buff.ly/3K8K8ry
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