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China poses a long-term threat to the United States, to liberal democracy and to the international order, John C. Rood, undersecretary of defense for policy, told a policy forum in Washington yesterday.

“It’s the way in which China is challenging this international rules-based order, challenging the individual freedoms that we support, challenging the free movement of ideas, and people, trade,” he said at a panel discussion hosted by the Center for European Policy Analysis. “And promoting an authoritarian model, one that doesn’t respect the sovereignty of others, [is] what challenges our way of life.”

The footage of a “yellow object” lying on the ground in Hong Kong underlined a harsh reality in this global financial hub, once admired for its legal system and official transparency. With Beijing flexing increasing control of the city’s institutions, and Hong Kong’s leader refusing to allow an independent inquiry into police behavior, the city’s authorities appear not to fear the consequences of violating protocols intended to uphold the rule of law, The Washington Post reports:

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