It's sad to see how delusional you are and biased over China. HK was always the land of the free. In 1998 China promised that HK will not suffer the same with the rest of China. The government had promised two systems and yet they didn't deliver. They tried to suppress HK as if it was a village from the country side and not a high educated rich City state. China has a corrupted undemocratic government
What are you on about???? That's like asking if one of the 50 states could be their own country. ???????