Only missed out the takeover of the Sevastopol Naval Base on the Black Sea and lost Crimea permanently. Now the US and Europe need to finance the Ukrainian economy.I would understand Ukraine and it was a spectacular success because they were able firmly put Ukraine in the West's orbit to but what was America's end game in Hong Kong? What were they hoping to achieve there?
As for Hong Kong, upon the 2019 severe riots they expected China to employ military means to take back control of the enclave, so the violent means, with or without bloodshed (forget not they might just stage some portion of the Kiev/Maidan scenario by having some deadly shooting to do the trigger), might give them the good cause even much better than the 1989, to organize a more solid whole block sanctions, mind you after all the trade war and hostilities... then combined with the virus thing, in the mind of the plotter, all of these should give very good position of strength, basically a winning position if all the plans came out as plotted!