Cold War Hongkong

London reuters chinese president xi jinping is so nervous about the position of the communist party that he is risking a new cold war and imperilling hong kong s position as asia s pre eminent.

Cold war hongkong. Chinese bureaucrats often analogize hong kong as a critical pass where any perceived sign of weakness would enable the entry of foreign enemies e g. China s cold war warning came a day after national security adviser robert o brien made it clear that hong kong could lose its vaunted trade status with the u s which exempts the global. But whichever way us politics goes in november beijing will have seen enough already to assume that a cold war outcome is now a distinct possibility if not yet necessarily a probability. The united states much as the manchurians.

Hong kong is increasingly becoming a symbol of the intensifying cold war between united states and china. In 1997 after 150 years of colonial rule britain signed a treaty with china to exit hong.