Hong Kong’s Demonstrators Protest Themselves Into a Trap

It ended in chaos, doubtless much to the satisfaction of “law and order” requirements of a government as unyielding as it is unrepresentative. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong again on July 1, the date both of the 1997 handover to China and the anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

But the story became focused…