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After China lost its special trade status with Hong Kong, after the regime ended its international agreements on Hong Kong\u2019s basic rights, it is looking to replace it\u2019s economic system with Shenzhen city. RFA reports that Xi Jinping announced plans on October 14 to put Shenzhen at the heart of a new integrated economic zone that will include Hong Kong and the island of Macau.

Meanwhile, China has released a video of a new swarming drone-bomb system, which appears to be a knock-off of a similar US weapon system. The state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation posted a video on YouTube that shows ground-based systems launching tubes which unfold into gliding bombs that can be remotely controlled. It also showed one of the drone-bombs being launched from a helicopter. The weapon appears to be a copy of the US-901 drone swarm systems unveiled by the US Office of Naval Research, right down to the wing designs on the drones.

And, after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called out China\u2019s attempt to subvert the American education system, China responded with terse words. In a joint letter with Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, Pompeo pointed out a \u201creal and\u202fgrowing\u202fthreat\u201d to American educational institutions, which the \u201cthe malign influence of the authoritarian government of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) on our nation\u2019s campuses.\u201d Zhao Lijian, spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded by calling Pompeo\u2019s words \u201cslander\u201d

These stories and more in this episode of Crossroads.

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