When it comes to politics, HN is similar to Reddit. People just comment by emotion and ideology, because they could feel the satisfaction by chanting the beautiful words of democracy and freedom, without burden of insightgul knowledge of history and culture of other people and countries.

Some here even wanted to start a war with China in the name of human rights. Remember crusades in the name of Christian?

Most people here don't know or don't care if HK was a democracy under UK, and don't care if there is a law to guard the arrest of Jimmy Lai and if ordinary HK people are sick of Ted Cruz etc coming to HK to fan up fire when HK was burning, whom and also other US politicians Jimmy Lai has met with.

Edit:

For those who don't know, Ted Cruz came over to HK to show his support in Oct. 20019 when HK was burning. And the most despicable was he claimed no riots in HK. That was the moment HK's fate was sealed.

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4714

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032751/ted-cru...

HK's political movements have no leadership or strategy at all. This kind of acts would turn all Mainland people against them. And CCP would feel empowered to do what ever.

My point is the situation in HK is much complicated than beautiful democracy vs evil CCP. It's much more than ideology.