Assessing China's real intentions
by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
Aug 17, 2019
3 minutes
BEIJING - China's massing of armed personnel carriers and paramilitary anti-terrorist police near Hong Kong's border is supposed to send a tough warning to protesters to go home. But that doesn't mean China wants to intervene.
The point of the massive saber-rattling display may be to scare Hong Kong protesters so much that China does not actually have to send in forces.
"My feeling is they're trying to raise the specter of direct military intervention in Hong Kong, so as not to have to actually do it," said Ben Bland,
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