17 August 2019 - Hong Kong 2

If you’re suppressing those irritating free people and you make a mistake, you can usually recover. You went too far and provoked protests? OK, roll it back enough to appease the protesters, and slow down a little. When the attention is off, take a smaller step in a different direction. Only one problem is too big to recover from, and that is when the anger spreads from a small group to the broad population, the mark of a revolution. China has a shorter memory than the U.S., they didn’t take as long to forget that they started with a revolution.