Beijing Was Confident Its Hong Kong Allies Would Win. After the Election, It Went Silent.

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 03:27:55 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/world/asia/china-hong-kong-protests-election.html>

"BEIJING — The Chinese government seemed confident that its allies would
prevail in the Hong Kong elections on Sunday.

For a week, commentators wrote brassy pieces saying the Hong Kong public
would go to the polls to “end social chaos and violence,” a vote against
what they saw as rogues and radicals. Editors at state-run news outlets
prepared stories that predicted withering losses for the protest movement.

When it became clear early Monday that democracy advocates in the
semiautonomous territory had won in a landslide, Beijing turned silent.
The news media, for the most part, did not even report the election
results. And Chinese officials directed their ire at a familiar foe: the
United States."

Via Lee David Rothstein and Isaac Kuo.  Lee wrote:

"Autocrats and autocrat-wannabes (like Trump and McConnell) always think
they are the popular choice until the inevitable. However, the
“inevitable” always involves massive pain to the citizenship/electorate."

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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