Here’s the chart that will get somebody’s organs harvested imminently in Beijing. The Hong Kong local elections:
What a smashing. Sinocism wraps it up nicely:
All indications are that Beijing is still trying hard to keep trade and Hong Kong tensions separate in the relationship with the US. There are more official denunciations of the US over Hong Kong, as well as a dressing down of the US Ambassador to the PRC on the topic, while at the same time there was yet another call between the two trade negotiating teams and official messaging around the possibility of that elusive phase one trade deal remains fairly positive.
