If china cannot commit to its agreement with UK to maintain hong kong's law separate from china, a freedom of ecpression, then it should be returned to the UK.
If I use white collar jobs as an example, eg. the same-ranked banker in operations in DBS HK is paid higher than DBS Singapore. Likewise, this is the same situation for legal eagles.
If china cannot commit to its agreement with UK to maintain hong kong's law separate from china, a freedom of ecpression, then it should be returned to the UK.
In 1841, the Treaty of Nanking ceded HK in perpetuality. NT and Kowloon was 99 years in later treaties. What happened thereafter that resulted in HK being returned in 1997?
HK has HKD 2 Trillions of FIscal Reserves. That is more than a quarter million HKD per HK resident.
The locals had been very concerned lately that their reserves are siphoned to major white elephant projects to support the chinese construction companies. Eg. the HK-Zhuhai-Macau bridge cost a staggering 144 billion HKD (shared by the three governments) and high maintenance costs.