If I'm not mistaken (please correct me!) these are the first mass arrests of bystanders in Hong Kong, and mark a significant escalation in police terror there. The only single-day arrests I can remember at similar scale took place during the university sieges last fall.
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Does that speed and harden China's crackdown?
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I wonder if that’s the end game of the CCP. Incite revolutionary talk so that they can be rid of the problem makers and use that as justification to finally be rid of One Country, Two Systems while also coming down like a ton of bricks on HK to bring it in line.
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