[deepVoid]

It is incompatible with CCP's views for sure. However, I don't think their long-term goal for Hong Kong is to turn it into another Chinese province though. Hong Kong has been doing well and prosperous under the current system. Hong Kong people enjoy more freedom, better quality of life. It does not really benefit CCP to turn it into a province which is less prosperous in many ways.

[CharlesColeman]

> It does not really benefit CCP to turn it into a province which is less prosperous in many ways.

What? The CCP cares far more about exerting control than about HK's prosperity. Especially now that they have dozens of equally prosperous but politically pacified cities.

There was a time that the CCP felt it benefited from HK's special status, when foreigners were more comfortable doing business there, but those days are in the past.

[smacktoward]

If what mattered to the CCP was keeping Hong Kong prosperous, why not extend "one country, two systems" indefinitely? Or extend it until such time as a majority of the citizens of Hong Kong vote to terminate it?

The CCP would never offer concessions like these, because this is a question of power, not economics. What matters to the CCP is that Hong Kong eventually be in a position where it can no longer defy it.

[deepVoid]

CCP has not decided not to extend "one country, two systems" either. 50 years is in the agreement with the UK when Hong Kong was returned to China. CCP has not said that they would not extend it either. I don't see why they would not if it works well for Hong Kong and CCP.