Willy Wo-lap Lam is the author most recently of Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era.
China's recent attempt to bully the National Basketball Association over a tweet in support of the Hong Kong protesters has backfired. Although the government has successfully intimidated many a Western company and foreign government, this time it made a huge – and potentially costly – miscalculation.
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