Yes. Specifically, up to last year, before we were formed, I think that much of the international support had been more symbolic or an expression of solidarity. For instance, people hold rallies and there are protests in Hong Kong. They come out in support. They sometimes provide testimony like this at hearings before western governments.
What has happened is that the HKDC was built particularly to directly engage in the legislative law-making process and policy-making process. That activity mobilized Hong Kongers, who are U.S. citizens and residents, to directly engage with their elected officials. I think that shift is a much larger threat in the minds of Hong Kong and Chinese authorities. It's not just that we're unfurling banners in support of what's happening in Hong Kong, but that we're actually sitting down and using our American citizenship rights to engage in the law-making process. In the last nine months we have actually been the driving force behind the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act that was passed; the PROTECT Hong Kong act that bans crowd-control items...to Hong Kong; and the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which was recently passed and signed to sanction financial institutions that are doing business with Chinese and Hong Kong officials.
I think that has escalated their level of threat as far as what they consider to be influential overseas.