China's National Day celebration kicked off with a parade featuring the latest additions to its military arsenal—several intercontinental ballistic missiles. For more on this, and how developments in Hong Kong will affect Beijing and vice versa, we speak to Andrew Mertha, Director of the China Studies Programme at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, for his insight.

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