AHC: Have Hong Kong be either Indepedent or still a UK territory in the present day

All the protests in Hong Kong got me thinking, what if Britain never signed the 99 year lease in 1898? Or voided it when the Communists took over?
 
If you don't want the communists to take over Hong Kong, you could just have Hong Kong be apart of some non communist Republic of China.
 
The only way to keep Hong Kong British is if China remains very weak and divided. Any Chinese government, whether Communist, Nationalist or something else would eventually demand Hong Kong's return, even if there were no 99 year lease for the New Territories.
 
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