Not just Democrats "centrists" in basically any western nation.
Just look at macron allying with the right so the leftists that just absolutely saved him and his party from being wiped out by RN, can't form a government.
But beer and cold beer are different enough that you need to specifically put up 2 different signs for them less some poor soul looking for the cold beer sees the sign saying "beer" and thinks they would never dare to keep the cold beer next to the regular, presumably room temperature, beer.
Commercial realestste makes up a significant amount of rich people's investment portfolios. And if people stopped needing office space the property would devalue and those rich people would lose easy money.
So they have all collectively agreed to force their workers back to the office I order to keep the real estate values up and keep their investments positive.
A hotel room being "full doesn't necessarily mean the guest is in the room at that very moment, just that the room us reserved. And given infinite rooms it's basically guaranteed one of those reservations is for sisyphus
Hong Kong itself as well as the Kowloon peninsula were actual territories that belonged to the UK after they were ceded to them after the opium wars.
It's only the "new teritories" which were several smaller islands surrounding Hong Kong island that were part of the 99 year lease.
Even if no effort was made to secure the new territories, we could have and should have defended Hong Kong and Kowloon as part of Britiain, as the people wanted to be either independent or remain British.
Thatcher rolled over and sold their futures to appease China.
Do these people think they're convincing? Do they genuinely not see how crazy they look?