TOKYO -- Hong Kong citizens are forming lines at international courier services, a friend in the territory explained in a recent email.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's stance toward Hong Kong lacks the pragmatism of late leader Deng Xiaoping's. (Nikkei Montage/Source photo by AFP/Jiji. Getty Images and Kosaku Mimura)
But Xi's high-handed measures on Hong Kong lack Deng Xiaoping's pragmatism