I think any type of anti-gov protest will get crushed immediately these days. Also 2000 got big boy jailed this time around vs maybe < 10 people in the 20 years prior with 8000 other cases still on file. I suspect those cases will be on file for the next 20-30 years even if they have no plan to prosecute some/most of them.
China has obviously been rising the past 5 years in power away from being cheap manual labor and the west has self admittedly falling... HKers are greedy and naturally jumping to the winning side. Many haters are in the UK working day labor jobs and some powerless are still in hk coping. They don't even have the courage to move to seek a better future... so they won't have the courage to organize further...
A large part of the reason is that these people have extremely immature political thinking. I once had contact with a riot participant（in 2016） on Tieba.
To be honest, I was shocked by his naive yet grand vision of a 'city-state'. He made no secret that the Americans had "trained" him. He confidently said that he is not afraid of CPC‘s"authoritarian machines".
But in my opinion, throwing bricks on the street does not prove how brave one is. I no longer paid attention to him afterwards, and his fate now seems obvious. It seems that American "training" can't help him.
Having different political views is not a bad thing, but I cannot tolerate people who are naive and have very bad intentions.
