Oh, and just so you know, we conveniently have a handful of cities in China that they've let an entity other than the Communist Party of China rule over as a sort of controlled pilot experiment.

And what would you know? Literally every single one of them (HK, Macau, Taiwan) has ended up being shittier than Chinese cities of similar stature are now.

It's like they were out to prove that Western colonizers are practically 3rd-world relative to China, and it evidently worked.