Asia Daily Briefing - Show of strength October 1, 2019

	Xi vows to maintain  'stability of Hong Kong  and Macao' BEIJING -- "No force can ever  shake the status of China, or  stop the Chinese people and  nation from marching forward," President Xi Jinping says in his  speech celebrating the 70th  anniversary of the  People's Republic.
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