Partial independence. Let them govern themselves. The dependency of the rest of China would have led to an automatic alignment...at some point in the past. B

Partial independence. Let them govern themselves. The dependency of the rest of China would have led to an automatic alignment...at some point in the past. But we're talking about China so this is not even imaginable. They'll try to put pressure until they break further, justifying even more pressure and so on. As far as I've heard they even have a special version of that credit system so there isn't even a viable escape route for those who want to align themselves to the rest of China.