India, June 20 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping is travelling a lot these days; he went to Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet, then he is visiting North Korea and later Japan. At the same time in Hong Kong, two million people (25 per cent of the population) walked down the streets to reject a law widely believed to have been piloted by Xi.

Bill Bishop, author of the Sinocism Newsletter analysed: "The Hong Kong protestors succeeded in scuttling the proposed extradition law, at least for the foreseeable future.Regardless, the rebuke of the mainland and its political system by millions of Hong Kongers could not be clearer and the damage to Xi and the party's reunification project that is core to the Gre...