Since its inception, a major question that has arisen is what impact have the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests had on China and the rest of the world. Rattling, answers a Newsweek article in Democracy Digest on the impact of these Hong Kong pro-democracy protests on the China’s leadership and on the international community.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement is rattling China’s leadership – and the world, Newsweek reports.

“We may be seeing a tragedy unfolding again right before our eyes,” said Stephen Roach, the former head of Morgan Stanley in Asia, referring to the prospect of a Tiananmen-like intervention.. He added: “You just have to hope cooler heads prevail, but it’s not yet clear that that will happen.”

In China’s internment camps, Muslims are reportedly subjected to forced indoctrination, torture, and even death. Yet some paid ads on Facebook and Twitter would have you believe they’re wonderful places, Vox reports.

The US-based social media giants have been enabling Chinese state-owned media to spread misinformation about the camps, investigations by the Intercept and BuzzFeed News revealed this week.

This week, the world got another indication Beijing has intensified its sharp power efforts when Twitter and Facebook announced they had taken down several hundred accounts “deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord” and undermine Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.

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