skinster wrote:Hong Kong is a part of China. It was never two countries one system, but one country with two systems. But that's changing.
The question should be
why one country two systems had to be done in the first place.
My answer is: Even Deng Xiaoping knew that imposing their way here was not gonna work.
However,
1. Deng, or more accurately, his successors, especially Xi Jinping, see this as merely a stopover so that they can still impose their ways later.
2. Some Westerners and ongkongers, on the other hand, see this as a time buffer and wish that China would change its way before the 50 year-limit is over.
One may argue that when China finds out Hongkongers are going for 2, they eventually stop pretending. To some Hongkongers (including a portion of those born or coming
after 1997), this defeats the legitimacy of "Hong Kong is a part of China", and thus the "unspeakable" starts.
While I have repeatedly stated that "it" is not the answer, China really cannot blame anybody but itself for having that thing happening in the first place.