BMI View: China's security challenges as seen from Beijing are numerous and can be defined by three core factors: national unification, maritime security and regional and international governance. Indeed, Xinjiang and Uighur separatism, Tibetan, Taiwanese and Hong Kong independence movements and territorial disputes in the South and East China seas that concern Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan and the US, all pose varying, but nonetheless significant, degrees of destabilising threat to the Chinese security environment. China will continue to pursue a selective approach towards multilateralism in its efforts to fulfil its geo-economic goals.
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