He set up Popular Revolutionary Tribunals to prosecute public officials charged with political crimes[12] and corruption, considering such elements of the state counter-revolutionaries.[15] This led to criticism by Amnesty International for human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions of political opponents.[16]
idk sounds pretty authoritarian to me.
The only thing the Hong Kong protests accomplished was allowing a murderer to go free https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Poon_Hiu-wing