…After the Wang Fuk Court fire, a student who organized a petition for an independent inquiry was detained by national security police and later expelled from university. In practice, the limits are learned through examples: an arrest, an expulsion, a prosecution, a lost job, a frightened institution. The central question here is whether China’s governing model stays responsive to reality when reality contradicts the Party’s preferred account of itself. Wang Fuk Court offers a grim answer. The councillor making a fuss about fire nets was attached to the layer Beijing feared, and both came out together.