Hong Kong Protests can Win only When it is a Battle about Values, with Mainland Chinese General Public on Its Side
The Chinese Communist Party is found of using the statement, "hurting the feelings of Chinese people" when speaking about actions and words of foreign governments that it finds distasteful. The phrase has often been mocked outside the country as nothing but a propagandistic tool. The mockery stems from the belief that unelected government cannot speak for the "feelings" of a citizenry that did not elect it, and that the Chinese elite, secluded in their own world away from the general public, neither have a clue nor any interest in finding out whether the majority of the populace really see eye-to-eye with government officials on the foreign "offenses."