I quietly wondered, some weeks ago, when China’s “Khashoggi moment” might occur. This probably isn’t it, unless an individual story can emerge that can capture the public’s revulsion in a way that, for some reason, only an individual story can.

It took one journalist’s murder and dismemberment to finally make Mohammed Bin-Salman politically radioactive in a way that thousands of dead and starving Yemenis could not. As we continue to ignore the Uighur internment camps, and probably this as well, what will it take for Xi?

China took and kidnapped their own international official personified in the head of the Interpol. Not much more than a squeak. So, I don't think you're going to hear about "unknowns" much.

The Saudi journalist is an odd exception. Any other journalist (remember the Russian journalist assassinated, or the Maltese journalist). Like there is a squeak but not much else --which tells me there is something about the Saudi case.

Yes, he worked for the Washington Post. I guess it hits closer to home for US media, seeing it happen to their own.

Well, but he was not murdered. "Just" imprisoned in unconvential ways so to say. So you can't really expect the same outcry.

True, but a person of great stature and responsibility, Not the UN sec general, but imagine the UN sec general gets kidnapped by Portugal and.... crickets...

> which tells me there is something about the Saudi case.

It being done on foreign soil is part of what made the Saudi case so egregious.