Ya know we don’t get a few images of a violent clamp down the next day or even a few days later in the local paper.
It’s INSTANT.
And there’s no hiding it unless you confiscate everyone’s cell phone! Cell phone cameras have really made it harder to do bad things in public :)
Wish that was so - still easy to do the bad thing - just harder to spin a good denial story...the question is how far China is willing to go while the world still has eyes-on and how much they can mask after the initial assault/confiscation/roundup. I think that Trump becomes a bigger factor than they would have ever thought as he will certainly leverage any misdeeds in this situation to the max and he has already got their economy/currency reeling against the ropes....with no rope-a-dope trick in their bag.