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Originally Posted by JohnnyB

You often allude to Hong Kong like this, but Hong Kong was never at any point a sovereign nation. The handover in '97 was the transfer of sovereignty over HK from Britain to China. It's not like China seized a place that wasn't under Chinese sovereignty. Many aspects of things in HK are also still operating along the lines of One Country, Two Systems. China asserted control faster than expected, rather than waiting all the way until 2037, but there was never any doubt about HK going back to China.

They aren't respecting the agreement:

In accordance with the "One country, two systems" principle agreed between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China, the socialist system of the People's Republic of China would not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and Hong Kong's previous capitalist system and its way of life would remain unchanged for a period of 50 years.[51] This would have left Hong Kong unchanged until 2047.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong