What adds weight here, though is the intentional nature of the acts--that the unfounded charges were made deliberately to deceive and manipulate the unsuspecting--charges also leveled against the Chinese central authorities by the liberal democratic states in other matters. [read post]

The position of China is the most traditional--the HR-SAK is and remains a part of the sovereign territory of China, and that consequently its governance structure  is ultimately a matter of China's own constitutional system. [read post]