Forget softpower, Hong Kong protests are an existential crisis for the CCP and Xi in particular. Xi Jinping will not survive HK. Every day that the protest go

Forget softpower, Hong Kong protests are an existential crisis for the CCP and Xi in particular. Xi Jinping will not survive HK. Every day that the protest goes on demonstrates the impotence of the CCP. Even with the great firewall, people are reading that large protests are occurring by "terrorists". China will need to murder thousands and will destroy 20 years are economic growth, if the choice is between losing control of a major city or committing mass murder. Xi looks invulnerable at the moment but he is hated and feared withing the CCP due to his lifetime appointment. No one is forgetting that he looks weak globally and the Chinese Grand Strategy (One Belt One Road) is also failing. There is no good ending, either China commits mass murder or major CCP leaders are arrested or shot.