This thread is scary, because a cynical Chinese leader mischaracterizing the Hong Kong conflict while getting full private briefings about what is actually going on is much less of a threat than a true believer being told what he wants to hear until publicly humiliated by eventshttps://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1198814005126676481 …
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Interesting. My sense is that they are getting good intel but their actions, however counterproductive, are being driven by a diff. strategic goal or ideology. There's a lot of political background in terms of "not backing down" that I think is influencing CCP's response.
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The fact that they were caught flat-footed by the election result suggests that they're getting bad information.
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