DBWI: Independent Hong Kong

Gian

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16 years have passed since the transfer of sovereignty from Britain to an independent Hong Kong government (also independent of China). With all the events the world has weathered through, do you think the British made the right choice?
 
Surely. China is quiet corrupted and its democracy is quiet unstable. Hong Kong is stable democracy and its economy is fine. But it is another question, how long Hong Kong can keep its independence. China has been very unified country many centuries and it hardly bear very long independence HK. Without protection of UK China would have surely conquered that.
 
Are you asking 'WI the British had transferred Hong Kong back to China'?
(OCC: This is would be the proper way to phrase the DBWI.)
 
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Hong Kong independent? Really??? :rolleyes:

All the major political parties in Hong Kong are infiltrated by Chinese agents. All the tycoons of Hong Kong owe their success to China. The best and brightest Hong Kong students now attend Beijing and Tsinghua Universities. Mandarin is now required for business. The Yuan is openly accepted even by taxi drivers. And the last poll states that 76% of Hong Kongers agree they are Chinese by nationality, but prefer the higher standards of law and business in Hong Kong, which no one expected.

The only reason why China tolerates a demilitarized satellite state is for its internal development. I think Britain and China came to an understanding that China will annex Hong Kong when the latter is ready for it, given some autonomy provisions.
 
^ Considering that the 76% Chinese by nationality is more of an ethnic element than anything else and the 2007 referendum on Hong Kong being part of China was voted down by a more than 2-1 margin, I'd say annexation is unlikely, and Hong Kong's willingness to allow CANZUKUS naval units there as frequently as they do is probably not a sign of the country wanting to be annexed by China.
 
^ Considering that the 76% Chinese by nationality is more of an ethnic element than anything else and the 2007 referendum on Hong Kong being part of China was voted down by a more than 2-1 margin, I'd say annexation is unlikely, and Hong Kong's willingness to allow CANZUKUS naval units there as frequently as they do is probably not a sign of the country wanting to be annexed by China.

The poll stated that 76% of Hong Kongers consider themselves Chinese *by nationality*, not by ethnicity. And it's no surprise they are unwilling to enter China immediately - if for no other reason than the sheer disparity in living standards. Some politicians have floated the idea of Hong Kong adopting the Taiwan model and retaining autonomy on all but military and diplomatic matters, but Taiwan and Hong Kong are quite different. That idea satisfies no one.

Western naval units can visit as many times as they want, and their politicians can trumpet China's non-recognition of Hong Kong, but as brutal as this sounds, China can march in within 20 minutes and they won't care. Not when China is such an important ally against General Dombarovsky. I mean, when Hong Kong politicians openly brag about their paymasters "in the north" it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the future doesn't it?

And on that subject, the Pravda has an editorial warning the Iranian Tudeh Party not to "fall into the path of revisionist traitors" at its upcoming Congress. You know what that means...
 
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