If Hong Kong Avoids a Bloody Crackdown, It Can Thank Taiwan

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美退役上将分析 华未出动解放军 台湾因素大于香港. RFA, Aug 10, 2019
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/ne ... encoding=simplified

. which is based on

James Stavridis, If Hong Kong Avoids a Bloody Crackdown, It Can Thank Taiwan. Bloomberg Opinion, Aug 7, 2019.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinio ... voiding-a-crackdown

Note: The introduction of the writer in the essay is: "James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a retired US Navy admiral [retired in 2013] and former [commander, US European Command and] supreme allied commander of NATO [2009 - 2013], and dean emeritus of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also an operating executive consultant at the Carlyle Group and chairs the board of counselors at McLarty Associates."
(a) James G Stavridis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Stavridis
(1955- ; "His paternal grandparents were Asia Minor Greeks [Greeks living in Turkey] * * * who emigrated to the United States;" [BS] US Naval Academy in 1976; PhD and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1984; dean, Fletcher School 2013-2018
(i) United States European Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_European_Command
(section 4 Commanders-in-chief / commanders: since 1952 when US European Command was created [till the present], all holders in this positions are American, and except Admiral Stavridis, all others are Army generals)
(ii)
(A) Supreme Allied Commander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Allied_Commander
(is currently used only within NATO; section 3 NATO: "formation of NATO in 1949. In 1952, Allied Command Europe was established, led by Eisenhower. He became the Supreme Allied Commander [Europe] (SACEUR) )
(B) Supreme Allied Commander Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Allied_Commander_Europe
(section 1 List of holders: starting with Eisenhower in 1951 and including Admiral Stavridis)

(b) Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (known as the Fletcher School) is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford [a Boston suburb], Massachusetts. * * * The Fletcher School was founded in 1933 with the bequest of Austin Barclay Fletcher, who left over $3 million to Tufts University upon his death in 1923. A third of these funds were dedicated to a school of law and diplomacy."  en.wikipedia.org/

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(c) Carlyle Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carlyle_Group
(Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC; private equity; The founding partners named the firm after the Carlyle Hotel in New York City where [two of the five founders: Stephen L] Norris and [David] Rubenstein had planned the new investment business)
(ii) Carlyle Hotel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Hotel
(photo; was named after Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle [1795 – 1881])
(iii) The English surname Carlyle is "variant of Carlisle." Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
(A) Carlisle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle
(10 miles (16 km) south of the Scottish border; in county of Cumbria)
(B) The English surname Carlisle means an inhabitant of City of Carlisle, "in whose name Celtic cair 'fort' has been compounded with the Romano-British name of the settlement, Luguvalium." Dictionary of Americna Family Names.
(iv) Cumbria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria
("The names Cumbria, Cymru (the native Welsh name for Wales), Cambria, and Cumberland [name of a county from 12th century to 1974] are derived from the name these people gave themselves, *kombroges in Common Brittonic, which originally meant 'compatriots' ") (citations omitted)

One map in this wiki page shows Kendal -- 'in the valley (dale) of the River Kent, from which comes its name': en.wikipedia.org for Kendal -- near the southern border of Cumbria. The air distance between Kendal and Liverpool is 64 miles. City of Liverpool is on the England's side across the border with Wales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool

My point is that names for both Carlisle and Cumbria are Welsh in origin, though far from Wales.