Battle of fading hegemons
Donald Trump has debased the US’s soft power and Xi Jinping has fatally undermined China’s
Martin Jacques
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Tibet is Beijing’s Achilles heel
The Beijing Olympics are a huge occasion for China. Ever since the opium wars, the country has experienced what it describes as a "century of humiliation". Extraordinarily, the handover of Hong Kong in 1997 was its first major foreign policy success since the early 19th century. The unrest in Tibet, then, is hardly unexpected.
