In This Review In This Review City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions Last summer, hundreds of thousands of protesters had been pouring onto the streets of Hong Kong for about a month when I got a call from a senior official in Beijing inviting me to lunch. We were quite friendly.