You clearly have never been to Hong Kong either, and know nothing about how or why the PRC leaves them to rule themselves.
Actually I have.
The thing we all lose site of is, it is CHINA not Hongkong which is winning.
China.
China is becoming the next big country. Not Singapore. Not Hongkong. Not Japan, or Korea.
China. With 1.3 billion people. China.
That is what we all pretend we do not see.
China.