I confess to being a miserable git - China is obviously engaged in quite a remarkable exercise to right a lot of historic wrongs.

Pity the story wasn't headlined with those words in the first place.

Alongside that article is another lashing China for rights abuses.

The Government also wants to prohibit foreign political organisations or bodies from conducting political activities in Hong Kong or having links with overseas bodies.

Which is precisely what 50% of Americans are so (justifiably) angry about and over which they're making such a big fuss. 

Why does the same story from the US and from China get such radically different treatment?

Especially considering there is nothing like that ever gone on in the US - while its a huge and very real threat to countries like China!