., ., ., “ potential military response by bei'ina ? ., _ beijing?g? i would look careful by both of the statements - beijing? i would look careful by both of the statements by - beijing? i would look careful by both of the statements by the i both of the statements by the foreign ministry but also the chinese ministry of defence. if you look at the text of that. these are unusual statements in terms of being forthright. i think it's quite conceivable there will be a form of military response, but we should not necessarily restrict that to in theatre, that is directly relevant to the speaker's proposed visit. it could be reflected elsewhere. at this is speculation, i note that this is speculation, i note that this language is unusually sharp. when president biden speaks to the president in taiwan, due to speak on thursday, do you expect the situation could be de—escalated somehow? my situation could be de-escalated somehow?— situation could be de-escalated somehow? g ., , ., ,, somehow? my own view is that speaker pelosi should — somehow? my own view

from a bei'ina with things as they stand? from a beijing perspective, _ with things as they stand?tive matter and they are always paranoid or anxious about any pockets or hidden space of resistance so they still feel very insecure about the possibility that resistance might flare—up so we can see the tight security measure that they take when xi jinping is visiting and they close down all of the roads and block off whole regions of hong kong and so, they really don't take any chance and definitely, by putting john lee with kind of the security police background as the next chief, the new chief executive, which is unprecedented not only in hong kong but even in local leaders in chinese province and cities, to have somebody having a security background to be the leader of the local area shows that they are still anxious about the possibility of resistance flaring up, which is possible very well, in the long run, so they will definitely double down in increasing the control of hong kong so that hong kong people and also revamping the universities, high schools, school curriculum to ma