IF I WERE A CHINESE DISSENTER, I’D TARGET CHILDREN OF ELITE CHINESE STUDYING ABROAD, AS A LESSON THAT THIS CAN WORK BOTH WAYS: China’s message to dissenters: Flee if you dare. “Recent months have seen an unprecedented expansion of China’s power to snatch up detractors across borders. Under mysterious circumstances, critics of China’s ruling party have been yanked from various foreign countries as well as the quasi-autonomous city-state of Hong Kong.”

And also start exposing, or destroying, the leadership’s foreign-held assets, many of which are hidden even from their own government. But, you know, that’s just how I think.