Can't say I like what they're doing. A government that is undecided and first bans something to later change their stance by 180 degrees and threaten people who don't like it only proves that the government is unstable. How can they rule the country if they don't know what's good for their people. This year it's bed 2 years later it's good what next?
Smart Chinese people should move to Hong Kong.
No, smart people should move to Taiwan. Hong Kong doesn't have an American fleet cushioning an invasion, Hong Kong is already a lost cause.
Of course, Chinese people have been emigrating en mass for decades. Saw that container found full of (Chinese) dead people in UK? Just for how long do you think this has been going? Half a century or more... People are willing to risk it all to escape oppressive regimes, and they know many die to never achieve their dreams. Those that make it are often exploited to levels of slavery. They hope their sacrifice would somehow help their family back home, with money or escaping, rinse and repeat.
China has the largest population, and the largest emigration. But you see the same pattern repeat all over the world, North Korea, Morocco, Cuba, you name it.
"Forbidding" talk, discussion and debate about anything is morally unacceptable. Its simply State oppression, no matter what color or "ideology" they paint it with, it is the very same.
That government is not unstable, its just another police oppressive state. Not unlike what China has always had for thousands of years... As long as their military stick to obeying orders from their leaders, and this is the largest military force in the world.
What is there to love from State oppression? Tho admittedly that has been human's history, with varying degrees of "freedom". Even in China, you are now able to do almost anything as long as you don't touch politics. Just like monarchies. Too bad when the State decides where you can and where you cannot go, or if you are even eligible to do so...
In feudal times, you weren't even allowed to leave the feud, the small region you were born. Vassals belonged to the lord, only the lord could decide for you. Well now the lord is the State.