So much of China’s recent intellectual history is crystallized - and mourned - in this moving piece by @LiYuan6. “Has the difference between Hong Kong and Beijing come down to the books one is allowed to read in jail?” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/world/hong-kong-security-law-fear.html
The Fear Factor: Bringing the Beijing Treatment to Hong Kong

With the passage of the national security law, pro-democracy activists face the same dilemma as their mainland counterparts: choosing between fear and their ideals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/world/hong-kong-security-law-fear.html
She recounts the mid-2010s assaults in China on rights lawyers and others pushing for justice within legal system - the string of jail sentences, physical threats, deleted social media accounts, book contracts refused, and ultimately ... silence. Critics (so many) gone quiet.
This was an unnerving period in China to bear witness to, as myself & many journalists did. And now, as Li writes, the same curtain falls in Hong Kong - once a beacon of relative freedom. Sources facing jail time, citizens deleting media accounts, web sites taking down stories.
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