Song Luzheng, a research fellow at the China Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai, told the Global Times on Thursday, Western governments and media “mostly support the unity of Spain which makes them identify Catalan protesters as secessionists or separatists but now they would be very difficult to criticize the incidents in Catalonia when they call riots in Hong Kong \“a beautiful sight to behold,\“ then this is how the double standard backfires on them.“