After more violent street demonstrations in Hong Kong last weekend, China’s President Xi Jinping took a harder, more chilling stance on the dissent ravaging the city. On an overseas visit to Nepal, he was quoted as warning that any attempt to split China “will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones.” It is a macabre, […]
Author Archives: David Saunders
David Saunders is a historian specialising in Southeast Asian and imperial history, and is a PhD candidate at The University of Hong Kong. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he is a keen observer of local political developments and their global impacts. He has previously written on maritime geopolitics, Malaysian state formation and British decolonisation.