Now the traitor Jimmy Lai picked up on this 12 year old and started calling it "police state" without a hint of irony.
It wasn't all that long ago, he went to see his handlers in the U.S. but not a word or reports from him about the 7 holes found in the back of a black man or the I can't breath episode. Yet a girl running away get stop is evidence of a police state!
I don't see why Jimmy Lai calling HK a police state is a problem. In fact Hong Kong should be a bigger police state. China should do a full court press to stamp out all pro-western colonial mindset out of Hong Kong. Why would they arrest Jimmy Lai and release him? It seems like China is still not serious about destroy Hong Kong identity.
As long as this separation between Hong Kong and mainland remains, it will always cause separatism to rise. This is fundamental human nature for separatism to rise when there is a difference between Hong Kong and mainland way of life. Hong Kong looks to the west as its role model. That simply cannot be allowed. It will always cause them to see themselves as superior and different from rest of Chinese.
The only way to prevent that is complete assimilation. Reeducation of young Hong Kongers should have been a priority. The more leeway China gives to Hong Kong, the more chaotic it will be. Its time to apply the Xinjiang solution to Hong Kong.
I am sure CCP will slowly realize that their soft approach is not working. And it will never work as long as Hong Kong is richer than mainland. They will try and fail and then will be forced to try more and more hardline approach.