> HK activists don't appear to be of much strategic interest to the USA. And where they are I imagine they would just reach out to them directly. What? The USG

> HK activists don't appear to be of much strategic interest to the USA. And where they are I imagine they would just reach out to them directly. What? The USG has put a ton of resources into backing HK protestors, through the NED, BRL, and satellite orgs like Amnesty (look at the saga of Kong Tsung-gan/Brian Kern). As for why the CIA might burn a 0day only to generate articles like this: NatSec threat inflation is a trillion-dollar industry in Washington. But it just as well might have been a local crime syndicate trying to scrape personal information for financial fraud. Point is, the article provides virtually zero evidence to determine who is at fault.