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- Zhou Yihuang, “U.S. Attack on Iraq: Killing Three Birds with One Stone,”
Jiefangjun bao, September 16, 2002. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report
China, World News Connection document # 0H32AYZ03ZIPVY. - In Chinese, a weng is the three-sided defense wall protruding beyond the normal
city wall and defending a city gate in ancient times. Sometimes the outer gate was left
open, inviting the enemy “gentlemen” in, where arrows would rain down on them from
four sides. - Quoted in Garver, China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World,
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006, p. 107. - See Garver, China and Iran, pp. 249–52.
- See Garver, China and Iran, pp. 155–62.
- See Alterman and Garver, V i t a l Tr i a n g l e, pp. 42–7.
Chapter 22. The Recovery of Hong Kong
- See Michael Enright and Edith Scott, “China’s Quiet Powerhouse,” Far Eastern
Economic Review, May 2005, pp. 27–34. - The Portuguese first landed at Macao in 1513, and in 1535 Portuguese ships were
granted the right to anchor at Macao. - S. C. M. Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power and
Primacy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. - Xu Jiatun, Hong Kong memoir, in Joint Publication Research Service—China Area
Report (JPRS-CAR), 93-050, July 16, 1993, p. 12. Cited below as “Xu Jiatun memoir.” Xu
was Beijing’s top representative in Hong Kong during the 1980s. - David C. Wolf, “ ‘To Secure a Convenience’: Britain Recognizes China—1950,”
Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 18 (1983), pp. 299–326. - Robin McLaren, Britain’s Record on Hong Kong, London: Royal Institute of
International Affairs, Chatham House, 1987, p. 7. - See Nicholas Eftimiades, Chinese Intelligence Operations, Annapolis, MD: Naval
Institute Press, 1994, pp. 30–1, 69, 79. - Xu Jiatun memoir, 93-050, July 16, 1993, p. 7.
- Eftimiades, Chinese Intelligence, p. 79.
- McLaren, Britain’s Record, p. 6.
- Professor Liu Xuepeng of Kennesaw State University pointed this out to me on
April 29, 2013. - Christopher Howe, “Growth, Public Policy and Hong Kong’s Economic
Relationship with China,” China Quarterly, no. 95 (September 1983), pp. 529–33. - McLaren, Britain’s Record, p. 6.
- Xu Jiatun memoir, 94-010, February 10, 1994, p. 8.
- Xu Jiatun memoir, 93-050, July 6, 1993, p. 12.
- “Our Basic Position on the Question of Hong Kong,” September 24, 1982, in Deng
Xiaoping on the Question of Hong Kong, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1993, pp. 1–5.
Zhao Ziyang, Thatcher’s equivalent in government, made the same point. McLaren,
“Britain’s Record,” p. 11. - Deng Xiaoping, On the Question of Hong Kong, pp. 1–2.
- Ibid., p. 2.