US Restores Preferential Trade Privileges for Hong Kong

This is a routine trade policy adjustment involving Hong Kong's preferential trade status, with no discernible impact on any of the seven constitutional damage drivers (election integrity, rule of law, separation of powers, civil rights, institutional capture, corruption, or violence). It reflects standard executive trade policy within normal international relations conduct. On the distraction/hype side, the story has modest novelty and media interest given US-China dynamics, but lacks strong outrage-bait, meme potential, or evidence of strategic distraction intent. Both A and B scores fall below the 25 threshold, and there is no mechanism of constitutional harm present, qualifying this as Noise.