China has 6,000 to 10,000 army troops stationed in Hong Kong, analysts and diplomats estimate
The possibility that Beijing would call in its army to quell unrest in Hong Kong is widely seen as remote. Still, recent saber rattling from the Chinese government has raised the specter of such an intervention.
China has 6,000 to 10,000 People’s Liberation Army troops stationed in Hong Kong, analysts and diplomats estimate. They can be mobilized quickly but are largely unseen, except for dedicated open days or rare events, such as helping to clean up after a powerful typhoon felled trees last year.
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