Hong Kong’s Kristallnacht

As the home of American democracy was stormed on Tuesday, Hong Kong’s democracy was being slaughtered.

From Xi Jinping’s perspective, the timing of America’s Capitol chaos must have been perfect. Absorbed by riots in Washington, D.C., the world missed what Xi’s minions were up to in the former British colony. Taking advantage of this situation, Beijing’s Western-focused Global Times outlet argued that “there is no doubt that the U.S. system is degrading and showing signs of worsening as cancer.”