Hong Kong is not a nation; it is a city within the political nation-state that is communist China. Deluding yourselves into imagining Hong Kong is Singapore will bring more ruin to your city. Hong Kong was never an independendent entity, and these riots, even if successful in convincing the CCP to acquiesce to the rioters' ludicrous demands, will merely allow for exchanging one master for another. Hong Kong was only useful to the CCP for laundering heroin and fentanyl money into their economy, but the CCP is now turning to Macao for these services. Hong Kong will return to an insignificant fishing village, as financial, service, and manufacturing needs shift to Shanhai, Shenzhen, and Macao.