and it's flagged up by regina ip, who's a hong kong executive council member. she is indeed.new people's party. she said this week, and she was drawing a comparison between protests in hong kong and the attack on the us capitol earlier this... ..onjanuary 6, where she said, "western media and politicians "called the capitol attack an insurrection, "but talk of hong kong riots as a fight for freedom "and a beautiful sight. " now she sees the national security law as restoring order, peace and security. it is a different perspective. it's a different... it is true that whenever we do something like the appalling events onjanuary 6 in washington, the chinese will take that as an example of double standards in western democracies, and they're not entirely wrong to say that. i think the main weakness in developing our arguments with totalitarian states everywhere — and make no mistake, china is a totalitarian state — when we as democracies don't behave as we should, that is something they can score on. but — butjust remember what the demonstrations in 2019 were about. they were ag