Exactly right. Even worse, looks like Snowden was played for a fool (whatever his motivations). The HK/Chinese extracted couple of damning statements about NSA spying on Chinese and then tossed Snowden away. I doubt Snowden saw this coming. Also, looks like they had a "deal" with the US govt and then let Snowden go on some technicality. "Loss of face" for the US Gov for sure, a big thing in those parts of the world. None of this connected with the problem of NSA spying domestically and a completely muddled message. Now with the whole China/Russia/Ecaudor/Wikileaks angle good luck to Snowden getting any popular support. He looks more like a foreign agent.