Liberty and free-market capitalism is a global issue. Hong Kong isn't the only place where these are heavily and increasingly contested, with far reaching consequences for us and future generations.
There are mutual benefits for both, except that Hong Kong has never been independent politically in the first place. Nothing has changed. Hong Kong has always had outsiders controlling it. Before it was Chinese, then British, then now Chinese again. And HK people have always been a flexible and adaptive bunch. That was the only constant. The others always changed.
When HK people in HK cease to be flexible and highly adaptive (because they weren't thinking that way, or it wasn't allowed), it isn't the Hong Kong we know it to be anymore. People who are will move elsewhere or be changed. They would immigrate, as people did back in 1996/1997, to better places.
The values of Hong Kong that makes it as it is, is the hard-working ethic and the flexibility and adaptibility that makes free-market capitalism and freedom intuitive to us and compatible to our way of life. When these are no longer the political intuitions, it won't matter how autonomous Hong Kong is.
Hong Kong is one tip of a big melting iceberg.
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How was integration defined in the book?
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not just "One Country, Two Systems" separation, but also advocating cultural "independence". Aka conservation of Cantonese, values of democracy, liberty and freedom.
Haven't finish the book, so can't say too much what the author has written.
Cultural independence has never existed in HK. Many legacies mixed together. People will have to choose what culture they want for themselves. Cultures evolve interdependently and independently with/of each other. The way HK culture evolves will be different from other parts of China.
Values of liberty have to be promoted by successful examples. They can't be destroyed, but they can be abandoned. If people abandon it, history tells us they pay the price, often with more than death - with their lives.
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