Thank you for the question.
The main approach that has been implemented right now is what we refer to as "lawfare", meaning that the Chinese government is restricted but with limitations when it comes to Hong Kong, when it comes to oppressing journalists and civic actors, generally speaking.
We have to remember here that China is ranked 179 out of 180 on the press freedom index. The only country that competes with China is North Korea. They have no problem with arresting people directly and implementing the most horrible approaches, but now they are restricted in the case of Hong Kong, so they are implementing lawfare and they are implementing the misinformation campaigns. It's going to go in two directions: the continuous implementation or the utilization, taking advantage of the available laws and regulations that they can manipulate on one hand, and on the other hand, discrediting journalists and civic actors by using whatever available tools they have with social media, and then later on, spreading that misinformation and controlling the public sphere in all of Hong Kong. It's going to be gradual, unfortunately. It's rapidly increasing, so if it doesn't stop, Hong Kong is just going to become another part of China, and it's going to be competing with North Korea when it comes to oppression.