When China was defeated by Britain in the first and second Opium Wars, Hong Kong was placed under British colonial rule. By the time China was independent again Hong Kong had become one of the world’s leading cities. The first Chief Executive, Yung Chee-hwa lunched the Hong Kong Special  Administrative Region (HKSAR) that set up grand development plans for the city and commitment to these plans. The plans ranged from housing needs to a Cybersport science park to Chinese Medicine Centre. Shortly after the handover, China suffers from Asian financial crisis that started in Thailand. The unemployment rate rose, social inequalities appear and increase, income inequality increases, and people had become more unhappy. Politically t was believed the political space in HK was greatly constricted. After the Sino- Japanese Joint Declaration they came up with the Basic Law that established high autonomy” and  “one country, two systems” model for ruling Hong Kong. The general framework of governance laid down by the  basic law was similar to the colonial government’s. The CPG of the PRC planned to maintain stability and continuity in China until Chris Patten came along as HK’s governor and started to make democratic moves. China became very concerned and elected a Provisional LegCo that reversed all proto-democratic reforms. China has been highly self-controlled in ruling HK and there has been very little complaints from CPG or HK citizens, except the pro-Beijing elites in HK. In General China and the HK relationship has been a mutual testing of limits and mutual accommodations. The Global relations are very important in relation to Taiwan who are supposed to be a model of the “one country, two systems” model for Taiwan , however, this has failed due to Taiwan’s mistrust of the PRC and the series of economic, social, and political problems that have taken place in HK since the handover in 1997. “In 2003,…Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui commented that Hong Kong’s plight ‘should serve as a warning to Taiwan that freedom and democracy can never coexist under China’s authoritarian regime.” And I think that I completely agree with this statement, knowing what I know now about China, China’s government has very little intentions of making any strides towards democracy and the government will do whatever it has to to prevent those around then and inside China form making any strides towards Democracy because it will cause problems  in their government system. I feel like this can be seen with the heavy censorship in China, it’s China’s way of being able to prevent a anti-communist or anti-government uprising that would hurt the Communist party. I think that I might be on Taiwan’s side that I am not sure an one country, two-system policy can work. It seems like a recipe for disaster just because no one  is ever on the same page and working in harmony, which i believe is needed for a country to run smoothly.