Hong Kong not a toy the West can play with

That they have chosen to sing God Save the Queen before the United Kingdom's consulate-general in Hong Kong and wave the Stars and Stripes in front of the United States' consulate-general over the weekend to continue seeking outside help to perpetuate their frenzy shows the demonstrators are nearing their wit's end.

By prolonging the violent demonstrations against a bill to amend the extradition law, which has already been withdrawn, and questioning China's sovereignty over the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, they have not only jeopardized the SAR's economy but also tarnished the image of Hong Kong as a global financial and shipping hub, and in the process also harmed themselves.

Isolated, they have no choice but to turn to their former colonial masters and the self-proclaimed defender of freedom in search of something more than "moral support". And it seems the US - along with its "all-weather friend "across the Atlantic which cannot even manage to clear the Brexit mess of its own making - is hell-bent on doing something stupid, as usual, given the way it has rolled out the red carpet for secessionist Joshua Wong in New York and Washington.