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Is the ‘Red Dragon’ fearsome or friendly?

13th August 2019 - 09:16 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Hong Kong

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If Beijing’s leaders and its numerous mouthpieces are to be believed, China is a friendly and cuddly panda intent on holding the world together. Then again, if you talk to some of its neighbours and those who have tasted the bitterness of China’s ire, it is an excessively threatening force and a profound bully.

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