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>two systems is not feasible Too early to tell. The point of PRC subsuming HK now is have ample time to cultivate new generations of HKers sympathetic to One

>two systems is not feasible Too early to tell. The point of PRC subsuming HK now is have ample time to cultivate new generations of HKers sympathetic to One Country before 2049 as exemplar for One Country Two Systems. The previous generation under UK education was always going to be tainted. Identity politics today is not going to be the same as that generations from now. The countercurrent is Tsai trying to manifest a strong, independant TW identity. The cultural clash will be in 20 years when those TWers look at HKers who will remain privileged and prosperous, but with a democratic facade - basically Singaporeans - and wonder if that life is better than war once the current charade that US can defend TW collapses. And more significantly, once PRC develops military capabilities to stalemate US both MAD and conventionally. Even then PRC will probably have to concede with some sort of satrap / vassal status. 1C2S doesn't have to be "feasible", it just has to be unambiguously better than the alternative, which is a matter of eroding US deterrence.

mmerlin 5y ago
The only Hong Kongers who will remain prosperous in 20 years are the sycophants who embrace this new fear-based system imposed upon them by a genocidal regime. They can never speak out against their unwanted political overlords or end up like the incarcerated opposition politicians, journalists, lawyers, students, doctors, etc Basically anyone who want to voice their own truth under their own free will ends up jailed and maybe tortured until they recant their true feelings and become another crushed spirit. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-sentenced-to-13-months/13676244 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/hong-kong-tycoon-jimm... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-28/hong-kong-detains-pro-democracy-activists/13201636 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-28/hong-kong-detains-pro...
rectang 5y ago
If there are "two systems" in the future, they will both be repressive — transforming "two systems" into a rotten shell, a sickening corruption of the original ideal of preserving the freedom of the people to choose their own government.

mmerlin 5y ago

The only Hong Kongers who will remain prosperous in 20 years are the sycophants who embrace this new fear-based system imposed upon them by a genocidal regime. They can never speak out against their unwanted political overlords or end up like the incarcerated opposition politicians, journalists, lawyers, students, doctors, etc Basically anyone who want to voice their own truth under their own free will ends up jailed and maybe tortured until they recant their true feelings and become another crushed spirit. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-sentenced-to-13-months/13676244 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/hong-kong-tycoon-jimm... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-28/hong-kong-detains-pro-democracy-activists/13201636 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-28/hong-kong-detains-pro...

rectang 5y ago

If there are "two systems" in the future, they will both be repressive — transforming "two systems" into a rotten shell, a sickening corruption of the original ideal of preserving the freedom of the people to choose their own government.