I never said it would be a Taliban-style insurgency. I used my own terms: "consistent borderline terrorism". This is the kind that consistently put a significant strain on the law enforcement system of Hong Kong which slowly depletes the resources of the HK government, eventually turning it into a tired fail state. This is IN NO WAY comparable to the Taliban. This is the real danger. This is done via hundreds and hundreds of sporadic violent attacks, and under the strain of economic/financial sanction from an outside force. This will happen over a long period of time.
However, what we are seeing so far, is that these "anti-China" foreign media was more interested to uphold their political-correct rhetoric. Their articles usher back in the kind of "peaceful demonstration" in which "not even a tear gas needed to be fired", as this seems to give them a moral high ground. They gave these kind of peaceful demonstration countless praises, and useless made-up theories that suggests that this is much more effective than desecrating the legislature hall, occupy the airport, beating up travelers, etc.