Last September, the Smithsonian Institute hosted a gala called “Classy, Sassy, Jazzy Hong Kong Night” at the behest of Washington, D.C.’s Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO). Patrons drank and dined amid vibrant music and celebrated the “diversity and vitality” of Hong Kong’s culture. It was a beautiful but morbid mirage, because while the Washington elites had their fun, the people of Hong Kong languished under the oppression of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—the very entity that controls D.C.’s HKETO.
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