Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu proved quite the online sensation when he went on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging site, to condemn United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this month. About 3,000 comments flooded his account in a day, mostly from mainland Chinese across the country, and mostly full of praise.

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