Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow have been jailed. It’s part of the protest playbook

When Xi Jinping came to power in his late 50s, Joshua Wong was only a 16-year-old schoolboy.

In 2012, the newly-appointed Chinese President didn’t dismiss the teen activist — known as a “tenderfoot in Hong Kong politics” — who was young, disobedient and influential.

The year was critical in the political trajectories of both leaders, but it was Mr Wong who first made a splash.

In 2012, Mr Wong convened over 100,000 people on the street of Hong Kong, rallying against a controversial Beijing-imposed patriotic curriculum, months before Mr Xi’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign unfurled across China.

Both of these events were set against the backdrop of Mr Xi’s nationalist “Chinese Dream“, which is to make the country proud, powerful, and…