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>Without mainland China's support, it's even worse.

The Mainland hasn't been supporting Hong Kong as much as taking it over and adding to it's historic role as a gateway for FDI into China, it is now using it as a gateway for businessmen and CCP to ship money out of China into safe assets (into Hong Kong and overseas).

What the CCP has done to Hong Kong is basically neocolonialism.