This sentence says it all. "My view, from 30,000 feet and eleven-time time zones away, is that protesters provoked the police in enough cases to create a vicious circle of attack and counter-attack." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/11/18/a-requiem-for-the-city-of-hong-kong/ …
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What we're really failing at, not just in the case of Hong Kong, is bringing informed voices from the region to a foreign audience that is hungry for context but needs a guide and some scene-setting. Sri Lanka is another excellent example of this failure in US journalism
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The Hong Kong protests have been exceptionally well-documeted, and you can watch them on live stream in real time. Journalists on the scene provide context and commentary. But those journalists are not the names on the big think pieces. They do not sit in the Armchair of Wisdom
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Also, and this just on a personal note, fuck you all with your "Requiems for Hong Kong"
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