The change in tone in Hong Kong news-papers that are sympathetic to the Communist Party says it all. Once hysterical about the territory's pro-democracy protests, their commentators are now smugly dismissive and condescending. The "Occupy" demonstrations had begun "with madness", declared an editorial in Ta Kung Pao, one of Hong Kong's staun-chest pro-party rags, on November 19th, and were "ending in failure". A few days earlier Global Times, a nationalist newspaper in Beijing, had crowed that the protesters had been "forgotten" by the world.
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