If China did this on purpose, then Hong Kong would be one of the purposes.

They were close to defeating the authoritarian reach of China. It’s time to take away the economic energy that the world has been transferring to China, and all other systems that are set up ‘in the name of the people’ but that do not serve the interests of the people by protecting the sovereign right to life, liberty, and freedom that each individual human being owns.

(Bloomberg) — On the surface, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam appears to have had a few pretty good months: Her government has managed to contain the coronavirus outbreak, during which street protests have mostly disappeared.Yet her bosses in Beijing don’t appear convinced that will help their allies during

Source: Fearing Big Election Loss, China Goes on Offensive in Hong Kong