Turns out, as I suspected, that the outrage in Hong Kong over the playing of a 2019 HK protest song instead of China’s national anthem, at the Seoul rugby sevens, was all local Beijing loyalists. Super “patriots”. Beijing itself didn’t want to make a song and dance about it. Perhaps they are aware of the “Streisand effect”. Here, above, a whole page in the South China Morning Post today. Goodness.
It reminds me rather of the times back in the oughts and teens when Hong Kong officials, double-guessing Beijing’s views, sought “interpretations” of local laws from the National Peoples Congress in Beijing. Being holier than thou, our local officials. The “interpretations” weren’t demanded by Beijing. Yet later it was Beijing got hammered by the “freedom and democracy” crowd, for its being “Beijing interference”.
