.......the success of the ability of the ccp to infiltrate and influence the common law anglosphere. While naive west was parroting "china is liberalising and coming round to the democratic capitalist model" ,the ccp's plan all along was the exact opposite.....play for time while ensuring the west comes around to the huawei/hikvision supervision model. 
"Hear Hong Kong now, or be Hong Kong soon" was not a catchphrase.