This is a really good article by @BeijingPalmer. The election in Hong Kong answered one of the pivotal open questions in the five month protests—how accurate is the information reaching Xi Jinping about Hong Kong?https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/25/hong-kong-election-beijing-media-delusions-victory/ …
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Remaining important questions: what is the chain of command above the Hong Kong police force? Does Beijing see Hong Kong as an exceptional place, or one of a dozen first-tier Chinese cities? To what extent is Trump willing to bargain away Hong Kong in a trade deal?
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The last time there was a significant break in confrontational street protest (week of August 18), the Hong Kong government squandered the opportunity to make de-escalatory concessions. Carrie Lam has been in "listening mode" for months now; has she heard enough to act sensibly?
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On the Beijing side, one possible outcome of the electoral fiasco in Hong Kong is that they will rely less on sycophantic human sources and more on whatever snake oil 'big data' solution Western vendors have quietly sold them.
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