Watching China try to cope with Hong Kong elections is amazing. There's a half-hearted attempt now to suggest that there was voter intimidation, violence, and rampant attacks, but the problem is that by definition the nearly 3M people who voted were there, and saw for themselves.
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People in authoritarian places become sophisticated consumers of information, so the fact that the Chinese press ran major stories about record turnout in Hong Kong, then stayed silent about the results of the election the next day, will not pass unnoticedhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-china/chinese-papers-avoid-details-of-hong-kongs-democratic-election-landslide-idUSKBN1Y00DU …
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They’re absolutely obsessed with the idea of contagion, deliberately spread by Western black hands or just naturally. Ironically, HK sentiment to influence the mainland as a model society is lower than ever, but whether they *want* to spread democracy north is beside the point.
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