Originally Posted by
triple7driver
China will never intervene. They will not send in the PLA (which is already in the Hong Kong garrison btw). For China this would kill the concept of One China Two Systems for Taiwan.
End of the day, China just doesn't need Hong Kong anymore... they will let Hong Kong slowly destroy itself and rot. The only thing that would cause the PLA to come in is if there was a serious threat of independence - which there isn't. The people who think independence is a viable, good thing for Hong Kong are in the minority.
China will focus their time and efforts on developing the other regions of the Greater Bay Area and leave Hong Kong as the forgotten city that will look back on it's past days of glory.
All the problems in Hong Kong now are of its own making - expensive housing, lack of social assistance, lack of social mobility - it's not China but China makes for an easy target.
I think deep down most Hong Kong locals are just racist and think they are better than the Mainland. They don't see themselves as Chinese... yet the rest of the world only sees them as just that - that's the sad part.
HK has been the spigot for the $ Trillions that have gushed out of China, they know this but once across the border, hard to catch those that do - UNLESS you pass this law..
Also Carrie Lam crying crocodile tears is BS.. She was a "pre-approved" yes person by the PRC
BEFORE she took the job. Every CE for HK since the first one has been.. Communism MO at its finest !!
BTW "Greater Bay Area" - MISAPPROPRIATED (copied) from the USA.. Same as most of the IP across the border..