Hong Kong needs to clean up its self-made mess because Beijing may just let it be

Is the government still functioning properly amid Hong Kong's snowballing political crisis? Hongkongers are not the only ones asking, the same question must be troubling Beijing.

But there is no obvious sign yet that Beijing will get deeply involved. Understandably, it still hopes Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her administration can clean up this unprecedented, self-made mess.