Can Xi Jinping be influenced? China’s policy shows no mercy

Catalonia’s separatists must be delighted that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is not leader of Spain. Hundreds of government documents obtained by The New York Times record how China’s mass detention of Uighurs — more than a million — and other minorities in Xinjiang were ordered by Xi Jinping.

Officials were ordered to “show absolutely no mercy” in the “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism”. If Catalonia’s separatists are pleased that he is not then those brave souls in Hong Kong who continue to defy his regime must feel a chilling wind coming from the South China Sea.