For Hong Kong’s Free Millions, Communism Catches Up

Beijing engineers new crackdowns aided by a Quisling government

For more than 150 years, Chinese have fled to Hong Kong to escape persecution, civil war, and state power. They came fleeing the Taping rebellion, through the collapse of the monarchy, and, most of all, from the bloodletting, famine, and madness of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen massacre, all the work of the Communist Party.

But now t…