I think the central government regretted that it allowed Hong Kongers especially those legislators, senior government officials to have multiple passports. There are too much leeway for hiring senior government officials such the former Chief of RTHK who did nothing to stop spreading lies and rumor and attacks on the Hong Kong government.
As for hypocrisy, the biggest hypocrisy in HK is those Yes men and Yes women who supported the brutal colonial rules now becoming democratic father and mother of HK.
I think an honest assessment of HK from handover till now will see it as a colossal strategic mistake by the west.
HK post reunification was an honest and fair experiment by China to see if the western democratic model had any merit that the rest of China could learn from.
The Chinese government gave them extraordinary freedoms and basically did not meddle at all.
But the self hating racists longing for their blonde haired, fair skinned and blue eye master race masters to return just couldn’t help themselves and went out of their way to spit on China at every opportunity and actively courted western malevolent powers while seized upon any and every opportunity to try to change the status quo and move towards independence. This ultimately resulted in a pre-planned and foreign funded and organised colour revolution attempt using the pretext of a pretty standard and innocuous extradition treaty intended to serve justice as some imaginary power grab by Beijing, as if China needed any pretext or cover to do so if it wanted to ( as evidenced by the national security law that ultimately resulted from this).
The colour revolution was destined to fail and never came remotely close to achieve anything of substance in terms of HK independence. All it did was prove unequivocally to China that the western model is nothing but a poison pill Trojan horse.
If you adopt the Western model, you effectively surrender all power to the west as you will be literally playing their game, which they can and will change the rules at will, and they will shamelessly lie and cheap and twist and hide facts to bury you in an avalanche of shit and drawn out the truth, as happens in the west as a matter of course.
That’s not how anyone remotely rational or moral who isn’t totally brainwashed would want their society ran. So all I can say is well done and thank you to the idiot politicians of the west, for so thoroughly and convincingly discrediting their own model within China. As without this lesson, the self hating racists in China would have continue to be able to make a convincing arguments that China needs to move towards the western model and sway many young naive idealists to their cause.
