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From NPR (listen and read)
"President Trump has signed into law a bill that supports pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. How's this being viewed in mainland China? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Rennie of The Economist".
Extract:
INSKEEP: First, I have to ask, as best you can tell, is Beijing symbolically upset or seriously upset by this law?
RENNIE: No. They are seriously upset, and you can tell that because if you're based in Beijing and you have off-the-record conversations with pretty senior Chinese officials, as I have in the last few days, they are full of the idea that all of these protests are being whipped up, paid for, organized by the CIA or by the British government, by hostile Western forces; that it's a plot to contain and destroy China by trying to foment a revolution in Hong Kong...
Other China news:
The Chinese Builders Behind Africa's Construction Boom, Spiegel Online
The New Geography of Global Diplomacy, China Advances as the United States Retreats, Foreign Affairs
RENNIE: No. They are seriously upset, and you can tell that because if you're based in Beijing and you have off-the-record conversations with pretty senior Chinese officials, as I have in the last few days, they are full of the idea that all of these protests are being whipped up, paid for, organized by the CIA or by the British government, by hostile Western forces; that it's a plot to contain and destroy China by trying to foment a revolution in Hong Kong...
Other China news:
The Chinese Builders Behind Africa's Construction Boom, Spiegel Online
The New Geography of Global Diplomacy, China Advances as the United States Retreats, Foreign Affairs
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