From far outside Hong Kong, the events of the last few days are bonkers. A young man fell to his death in murky circumstances during a police encounter, and the police are responding to public fury by arresting lawmakers just weeks ahead of scheduled local elections. https://twitter.com/ray_slowbeat/status/1192822105391415296 …
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The official fiction that "Hong Kong is open for business as usual" is becoming impossible to sustain in the face of a total breakdown in public trust in the authorities, and that unfortunately increases the dangers of overt interference from China
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It is always a struggle deciding whether behavior by the authorities in Hong Kong is 12-dimensional chess or one-square tic-tac-toe. So far it's been mostly the latter
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