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Commenting on pro-Beijing commentators who revelled in the events at the US Capitol and compared them with Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters storming the Legislative Council building, the column “ What Donald Trump’s Twitter ban, US Capitol invasion and Hong Kong Legco siege have in common: cheap talk ” (January 14) says, “The Hong Kong protesters acted in defence of democracy … The pro-Trump invaders acted in defiance of democracy … Equating the two elides over their diametrically opposed goals.” I hear and read the same remarks from most Western journalists. I would agree if I could see the Hong Kong...
