Why can Hong Kong never be like Taiwan?

If by “like Taiwan” you mean “a de facto independent nation”, then the answer is pretty straight forward — size and location location, location! read more

This is why some people are evaluating the chance that Taiwan may become HK-like in the future (which is again very low because leaving a tiny city as an exception of the system does not hurt but Taiwan is not a tiny city). read more

Taiwan has relatively higher possibility to be independent but never can be due to historic and patriotic sentiment as Taiwan believed that China is a part of R.O.C. and China of course believe Taiwan is part of P.R.C. read more

But Beijing’s insistence earlier this year that candidates for Hong Kong chief executive in the 2017 election will be selected by a panel of mostly Beijing loyalists instead of by popular vote has convinced many in both Hong Kong and Taiwan that Beijing will never tolerate genuine democracy in territory it controls. read more