Corporations are supposedly entering a new phase of caring about social justice. If the executives do care about what’s right and wrong in this world, then Hong Kong is currently on your mind.

The people of that small enclave, historically prosperous and free under a British common law system similar to our own, have taken to the streets in recent weeks. Badly outnumbered, they are now desperately resisting the broad-daylight theft of their civil liberties by a Communist government.