Thanks for offering a helpful reflection as always, Open.

I agree that all humans have right to express freely, provided we don't compromise the greater harmony for all. Well, for now, most Chinese people are happy with their current government who promotes socialism instead of capitalism. There will always be a minority of Chinese people (including the hundreds of thousands of Hong-Kongers vs over a million HKers who are happy with the centralised government) who will be unhappy. But like everywhere else in the world, humanity needs to evolve more to reach a greater harmony. At the moment, the Chinese government can only serve the interests of the majority who want peace and stability, and anything that is perceived as a threat to those interests, as well as potentially causing deadly civil war, will be clamped down hard, sad to say.

I kind of learned this lesson when, a few years back on YouTube, the New York Times released a misinformed video about China's healthcare with intentional mistranslation of what some interviewed Chinese people said, and when me and several other people who knew Mandarin pointed that out, our comments got removed quickly. After that, I've tried to "wake up" Sinophobes in comment sections of similar videos about the Sinophobic lies, but the majority of the people there who just want to feed their Sinophobic bias just bashed me for being a pro-Chinese. With this, I realised it's hard to go against the majority, if you are in the minority. This is simply how things work for now. (Also, I'd be interested to hear what that man at 1:14 in the video you shared said, so I can hear and interpret that. I wonder why they muted the voice and just put some BGM instead.)

Anyway, I have no doubt that should the majority of Chinese people become unsatisfied with their government at any time, they will simply overthrow their ruler like they did many times for the last 5000 years or more. I took the time to learn as much Chinese history as I could, and I noticed a pattern: Whenever their ruler became corrupt or despotic, the people would rise up and overthrow the ruler, by force if necessary. And the reason why Western powers failed to take over China other than the Hong Kong region is because the Chinese people were very resistant to tyranny. (This is one of the reasons why many Western countries resent China to this day.) So at the end of the day, the real power is with the people, not who they choose to represent them.

With respect as always