National Day was meant to be a big bash. Now, Hong Kong looks set to spoil the party.

It should be a triumphal 70th birthday bash. Instead, China faces the possibility that clashes in Hong Kong will overshadow Tuesday's commemoration of the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

to include calls for greater democratic freedoms amid fears that rights are being eroded by Beijing's growing control.

"The big message is that it's the Communist Party that saved China, the Communist Party that holds China together and that's why have the monopoly on power," Hughes told NBC News."That has painted them into a corner now that things have gone badly." "Shanghai would never have tolerated three months of protests. It would simply never have happened," he said.

Hughes agreed, adding that the principals of Chinese nationalism are at odds with negotiation or consultation."It’s always seen as weakness if you actually talk to the people directly affected and try to reach a compromise or bring in some as arbitration."

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