Recently a Malaysian friend shocked me by asking me "How come it was foreigners, not locals, protesting in Hong Kong in 2019?" I guess she saw those grainy photos of random gweilo but she realised how wrong she was when I showed her a video of the 2 million (+1) march of June 16th, 2019...
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤Anecdotally, it’s a motte-and-bailey approach I’ve gotten used to from the more pro-establishment people in my life, who used to claim CIA agents were handing out cash at marches and giving orders because someone in their WhatsApp group shared a grainy photo of some random gweilo near a protest site