Do have to say though, the Hong Kong protests were not about sedition. The demands were withdrawal of an extradition bill that people felt threatened the legal system of Hong Kong, for the government to stop calling protests riots so that people don’t go to jail for it, for release of those imprisoned, to investigate the police independently, and for the executives to be fired and a universal election. None of the main demands of the protests requested to be free from China, only some of the young radical ones wanted that. Hong Kong doesn’t even have its own local military unlike Singapore. A minority requesting independence and kissing Ted Cruz’s ass basically turned a lot of people in China against Hong Kong.