A complete Chinese takeover of Hong Kong was always inevitable. It made sense for the PRC to let Hong Kong have some semblance of semi-autonomy to keep foreign investments coming in, but that was decades ago. In 2019, the PRC knows that money will come in regardless of what they do to the people of Tibet or to their own people in Tiananmen Square, let alone Hong Kong. All we will do is “closely monitor” - at least this time we won’t have the pathetic spectacle of Brent Scowcroft flying in to raise a glass to the dictators.
So what do you want to do, go to war? Stop receiving televisions in exchange for little pieces of paper?
The British created this problem for people who seem essentially Chinese to me. Let those folks deal with it.
ML/NJ