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Can Hong Kong Hold Its Autonomy? When Britain handed Hong Kong back again to Chinese rule through a wet midnight ceremony in 1997-with a dispirited prince Charles then sailing away on his mother’s yacht-there were hopes the flourishing city would extensive hold intact its numerous present freedoms beneath a brand new “One Nation, Two Systems” technique of governance agreed to by China and Good Britain Robert P. WRIGHT . But ever given that, China has steadily eroded individuals freedoms and is also doing this as of late in a more quickly level. Following initial abandoning an implied assure to permit Hong Kong citizens select their own officers in totally free elections by 2007, Beijing has persistently diminished Hong Kong’s civic area, specially because Xi Jinping took more than the Chinese govt and ruling celebration 4 a long time in the past. So new setbacks surface area nearly everyday as Beijing’s officers endeavor to ‘harmonize’ Hong Kong’s civil culture, squelching thin