Anne Applebaum: Foreign intrigue
A pro-democracy protester acts as a lookout in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on Oct. 5, 2014.
LONDON - More than 50,000 people have filled the streets of Hong Kong in the past few days, and at times the number has climbed higher. The photographs of these gatherings have shown a remarkably calm, remarkably disciplined crowd. Students do their homework on the sidewalk. Others stack up plastic bottles for recycling and sweep the streets.
