An editorial says Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong received a ten-year prison sentence on November 5 over allegations of lobbying foreign governments for sanctions. It links the ruling to the territory. Amid the raging anti-establishment protests around the world and the lingering euphoria from the spectacular repudiation last week of President Donald Trump in the US midterm elections, the chilling ten-year sentence slapped on November 5 on Hong Kong’s pioneering pro-democracy.