That's a common myth. The British ruled HK for 156 years and HK was never democratic. Movements toward democracy had some momentum after WWII for fear of HK joi

That's a common myth. The British ruled HK for 156 years and HK was never democratic. Movements toward democracy had some momentum after WWII for fear of HK joining the decolonialization or communist movements but was put down. Mass killings of populist movements in the 50s and 60s are common place. But exactly one year after the sino british declaration, UK decides Hong Kong was a 'democracy' but a sham democracy nevertheless since the commoners can't vote for the 70% of the seats in the functional constituency and legislative votes are counted differently for the queen-appointed, unelected governor proposed bills. Yes thing are indeed worse these days under the CCP because a- Hong Kong can no longer do nothing productive and parasitically skim off the top of all China trades, finance and logistics and b- because HK and the CCP did nothing to reform this conservative, wealth monopolizing, oligarchic colonial government structure. The self serving oligarchs who monopolize finance, media, real estate are doing well for themselves by monetizing Hong Kong's ultra neoliberal legal system in sectors like wealth management, real estate, private banking etc but the lives of the common people are getting deeper and deeper in the hole with 20% and increasing poverty. If I were in HK, I'd be protesting too. But it's important to know the reason and not just being religious and saying eagles good communists bad.