Explanation =/= endorsement. The reality is those indoctrinated by western liberal values will clash those indoctrinated by CCP values, and ultimately the CCP t

Explanation =/= endorsement. The reality is those indoctrinated by western liberal values will clash those indoctrinated by CCP values, and ultimately the CCP themselves. That's an inevitable contradiction with 1C2S. At the end of the day 1.4 billion is not going to change for 7 million. The only realistic option for HK was to gravitate towards the Chinese system, the most optimal condition would be akin to Singapore, nominal dictatorship with many familiar freedoms circumscribed by one party restricted press. Last I checked, most Singaporeans liked Singapore fine. But the protesters opted to for universal suffrage & not one less, that will never happen especially after treasonous appeals to foreign parties. So the movement must to be broken, better cauterize the wound now than let it bleed and be infected by foreign agents in the difficult times ahead. No need to genocide or mass internment. Integrate HK into greater bayarea, squeeze protesters into margins of society and out of HK by blacklisting them from local opportunities, disperse 4/7 million rebellious voices until it's drowned out by 66/70 million pro-CCP voices. Basically what Social Credit was designed to do: expel non-productive people or those that burden Chinese development out of privileged areas and visibility. Indoctrinate new generation to comport to CCP values, replaced displaced dissenters with mainlanders. Two options after. HK becomes just another tamed Chinese city. 15 years into the process, they can start building HK back up into a model city filled with "loyal" citizenry, which leaves another 14 years to try to convince new voting generation in Taiwan that 1C2S could still work. Assuming US containment fails. Which it very well might.