Ahead of Sunday’s protest in Hong Kong, Beijing apparently decided to leave nothing to chance, covering China’s national emblem outside of the Chinese Liason Office in a layer of plexiglass.

In the end, protesters never got close enough to the office to do any actual damage to the emblem thanks to police barricades. Instead, however, Beijing has ended up with some symbolic egg on its face with photos of the encased emblem going viral, becoming a metaphor for Chinese rule over the former British colony.

The emblem has drawn comparisons to both a packet of condoms and Mao Zedong’s preserved body entombed in crystal at Tiananmen Square.

Telegram users are comparing the clear perspex protecting the Chinese National emblem on the front of the Liaison Office to a condom… nice lads pic.twitter.com/g3QSvsQNPv — Jack Hazlewood (@JackHHazlewood) July 28, 2019

中共國國徽被放入水晶棺材,香港反送中給中共送終。

CCP’s National Emblem is buried in a crystal coffin, exactly where it belongs.

“Extradition Bill” 送中，sounds exactly like 送終, which means “to bring the end to”. pic.twitter.com/SB1bQAMX5T — 周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou (@ZhouFengSuo) July 28, 2019

This precaution was taken after protesters had defaced the emblem with eggs and ink during a rally on July 21 which required a replacement to be installed.

Afterward, Chinese state media published an article with “people from all walks of life in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” condemning the defacing of the national emblem.

“Their behaviors have trampled on national dignity and constituted a serious insult not only to the nearly 1.4 billion Chinese people, but also to those who have sacrificed their lives to defend the country and all overseas Chinese,” one community service worker was quoted as saying.