A thoughtful essay by Law Wing-sang, comparing HK and post-1968 Czechoslovakia, echoing Jan Patocka's notion of “solidarity of the shaken”
“Who Killed God? How can the shaken unite?” https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e5%89%af%e5%88%8a/article/20201206/s00005/1607192526454

//everyone is beginning to understand that the CCP's move to eradicate the root of the problem and transform HK as a whole, once initiated, has no bottom line of self-restraint. Larger, more radical purges and destruction will come in waves, and the situation will only get worse

In Heretical Essays on the Ph. of History, Patocka introduces the concept of "solidarity of the shaken", arguing that among victims and people whose lives are deprived of meaning, a kind of authority can be created and become a source of power, constitutin a cultural opposition.

As young people were eager to break away from the "pseudo-culture" of those in power, they devoted themselves to cultural resistance. Literary writings, small theaters, and protest music were all the rage. But they were also increasingly exposed to the violence of the regime.