Just asking (4): submit to HKG authorities?

The Legislative Council Complex of HK (17jiangz1, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/bu-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

I hope pastors or preachers can read this blog.

I have been wanting to find the answer to this question.

For those who were in HK over 2019-2022, and who still are staying in HK, pastors and preachers in particular, responses will be welcomed.

I always believe Paul must be aware of the cruelties Roman Caesars did to people, especially to their households. So I often feel that there must be an alternative and reasonable interpretation to the hegemonic one prevailing over HK Christian churches.
That’s, Roman 13:1’s call as commonly preached in HK churches, must be wrong.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God (Rom 13:1, ESV).

But what about Peter?
Didn’t he too experience multiple times the injustice at Jewish and Roman authorities?

Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good (1 Pet 2:13-14, NET).

Is it the case that whilst in Paul’s and Peter’s Roman system of emperors, there was no room for disobedience to authority, in a democratic system where election determines authority, and where civil and criminal judgements are given at courts, there is room for disobedience?

Shouldn’t HK Christians react to authority differently to what’s been preached in churches?

I’m just asking.