Taiwan-China Cross-Strait Tensions

We Could See Something Like Early Days of Hong Kong, if Limited Violence Used

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"If there are numbers of people who continue protesting, I would not be surprised if they begin to arrest people, if they begin to use limited violence. It could look something like the early days of the crackdown in Hong Kong,"" says Bonnie Glaser. ""But I think that the party is not willing yet to use violence. And, of course, this wouldn't look anything like Tiananmen Square in 1989."" The German Marshall Fund Asia Program Director discusses the biggest wave of public defiance in China since Tiananmen with Taiwan Talks host Yin Khvat.