Hong Kong

When communism was dead, the party leaned heavily on nationalism and economic development. Part of that nationalism was we have to bring back these things that were taken away from us. So it became very important to get Hong Kong back and not allow it to remain separate. The British were interested in holding onto it. And so even though it was this odd system had been heavily informed by a hundred years of British common law, the people had much more freedom than they did before.