CCP is terrible at PR like you can do this or you can tell a Peaceful Rise story where everyone you rule with an iron fist likes you but really not both at the same time https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-signals-plan-to-take-full-control-of-hong-kong-realigning-citys-status/2020/05/21/2c3850ee-9b48-11ea-ad79-eef7cd734641_story.html …
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ok thinking about this more an interesting consideration: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Human_Rights_and_Democracy_Act …pic.twitter.com/JtUXbpkDeh
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tldr I wonder if Beijing decided that US was going to yank HK special treatment anyway and decided to mask off
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I’d guess a big part of this is that waving US and Brit flags and singing their anthems made the situation too intolerable to the CCP to keep slow-broiling HK.
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Which might well have been the point, the people running around with English-language signs whenever some country is about to get some freedom by airmail are mostly aimed at you, not their countrymen (that it’s less conspicuous in HK is a bonus I guess).
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