Did Tianenman 2.0 just begin?

Friday, 30 August 2019

Beijing appeared to be sending deliberate warnings to Hong Kong protesters with its irregular troop rotation in the region and a state media editorial openly endorsing the Hong Kong government to declare a state of emergency.

At around 4 a.m. local time on Aug. 29, China’s state-run media Xinhua announced that troops stationed at the People’s Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong were rotated in the early morning hours as part of a “normal routine annual rotation.” People’s Liberation Army is the official name for the Chinese military.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.