Protesters demonstrate in the district of Yuen Long in Hong Kong on July 27, 2019. Crowds of Hong Kong protesters defied a police ban and began gathering in a town close to the Chinese border to rally against suspected triad gangs who beat up pro-democracy demonstrators there. Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
Mark Twain said, “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The tool a person has to solve problems determines that person’s perspective and choice of solution.
Beijing’s problem now is that it’s holding a hammer, only to find that Hong Kong is not the nail the regime thought it was.
