Glavin: Hong Kong on the border between freedom and repression

Five months into a sustained and unprecedented mass insurrection that Xi Jinping’s puppet administration and its barbaric police force have failed to suppress, Hongkongers returned a sweep of democrats in last Sunday’s local district elections. So much for Beijing’s confident prediction that a “silent majority” would turn its back on Hong Kong’s largely leaderless uprising. So much for the propaganda about the “black hand” of foreign troublemakers