It is my understanding that the protests originally started over HK residents frustrated that they would never ever be able to afford decent housing inside of HK, and they blamed a couple of central figures in HK (who are not Chinese residents).

The protests seem to have become much more than that.

The final form of the protests don't address the frustration of HK residents over living costs.

stop polluting HN with comments like this

"our economy has weathered this better than anywhere in the world, and we will likely come out of this crisis even stronger, with even more global power, than we went in" - I can't read your entire paywalled off article, but I think the US' response of basically ignoring the plight of unemployed workers and only nominally trying to save small businesses ... vs the European model of giving aid to employers and cover a fraction of employees salary as long as they don't lay off workers, is obviously going to give the European countries a head start on recovery.

Unless you're a Creative Destruction disciple. There's been a lot of destruction!

Perhaps the current FBI is pure and 100 percent professional now, but the FBI of the 50s/60s/70s would totally do this, and much worse.

it would be funny if Cuba finds a successful treatment protocol first.

If Russia gave it to them via China which made it from research stolen from the USA, I wouldn't call it "funny." I would call it "saving half a face, just in case."

"We're not interfering with other countries' covid response" - the US continues to freeze Iran out of the SWIFT system, which means Iran can't buy just about everything.

Iranians will die because of this policy.

I've researched the Uighar thing heavily.

It always bugs me though that the United States has more prisoners than China, despite having a vastly smaller population.

COVID-19 affects the entire world. Shouldn't all COVID-19 basically be done on a globally viewable wiki? It's going to take the cooperation of all countries to get through it. I don't understand why the US should hoard any COVID-19 data it has, besides extremely non altruistic ones.

Let’s see who else is putting valuable IP it out there.

Any paper put out by an extremely ideological think tank is going to present statistics in the most biased way possible, to try to prove their point.

National Affairs dot com is published by the extreme right wing think tank The Claremont Institute, started by the man who came up with Barry Goldwater's line "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."

This is not true. National Affairs dot com is run by the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute.