HONG KONG - Documents seen by Kyodo News have revealed that high-ranking Chinese military officials in November 2014 considered military intervention to suppress a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, raising questions about Beijing's commitment to the former British colony's semi-autonomy years before China introduced a sweeping national security law.
At the time, many in Hong Kong deemed direct military intervention out of the question, believing China was tolerant of the city's pro-democracy activism under the "one country, two systems" framework, which guaranteed it a high degree of autonomy after its handover from Britain to China in 1997.
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