It is possible that President Xi Jinping will harden his attitude towards the extradition bill protests after he meets Donald Trump at the G20 summit and China weathers the trade war. Photo: AP It is possible that President Xi Jinping will harden his attitude towards the extradition bill protests after he meets Donald Trump at the G20 summit and China weathers the trade war. Photo: AP
It is possible that President Xi Jinping will harden his attitude towards the extradition bill protests after he meets Donald Trump at the G20 summit and China weathers the trade war. Photo: AP
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Deng Yuwen

To Beijing, Hong Kong’s extradition protests are sealing the city’s fate. Can ‘one country, two systems’ survive?

  • Hong Kong’s million-strong protests are really directed at Beijing, which will tighten its grip on Hong Kong’s elections, and ramp up the city’s economic and political integration. But Hongkongers still have a chance to control their own destiny

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Deng Yuwen

Updated: 7:25pm, 18 Jun, 2019

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It is possible that President Xi Jinping will harden his attitude towards the extradition bill protests after he meets Donald Trump at the G20 summit and China weathers the trade war. Photo: AP It is possible that President Xi Jinping will harden his attitude towards the extradition bill protests after he meets Donald Trump at the G20 summit and China weathers the trade war. Photo: AP
It is possible that President Xi Jinping will harden his attitude towards the extradition bill protests after he meets Donald Trump at the G20 summit and China weathers the trade war. Photo: AP
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Deng Yuwen

Deng Yuwen

Deng Yuwen is an independent political commentator and international relations scholar. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Nottingham, and also a member of council at the Beijing Reform and Development Institute.