[dirtyid]

>The targeting of the education system is insidious.

The rise in HK liberal values among youth itself was engineered via "insidious" introduction of political education by UK to influence the city's overton window post handover. Curriculum under colonial rule was much more apolitical. Hence why PRC tried so hard to introduce patriotic education to counter such influence. CCP knows better than anyone that education is the greatest propaganda tool of them all. There was early recognition that new generations of HKers would be lost to "foreign" influence ~10 years ago when HK perception of Mainland was highest. Culture war are long wars. The situationw as never tenable. Whether it's insidious brainwashing or mental decolonialzation is matter of perspective, but propaganda works. The HK youths of tomorrow will be sympathetic to PRC / One Country interests. Which for a Chinese city is arguably the way things ought to be.

[danrocks]

You have zero data to back up what you just said. Zero.

[dirtyid]

Plenty of papers analyzing developments in HK education curriculum pre/post handover from PRC/HK/western academics. Or demographic data on HK identity which diverge sharply by age cohorts pre/post as result of reforms. Or polling of HK sentiment of PRC stretching back since post handover. Or analysis from the mainland of why patriotic education was necessary to decolonize HK before culture fractures formed along generational lines. This is all 101 knowledge on the subject matter for anyone following HK/PRC dynamics since handover and before. Your knowledge level seems to match someone that self professed to have moved to HK in 2018 - negligible.