This discussion will involve too many items, such as National benefit and Social civilization, Power of the government and Right of the citizens, International Relationship and Pride of nationalism, etc.
But we can be free from this discussion, Colonization is not the only father of social civilization and it's too expensive for social civiliztion, the cost is the whole of our chinese tradition culture and pride.
That's why I think King James will never win as much pride as Air Jordan, it's the same logic.
One will not only look at the Hong Kong, but also at India, something like the failure example of colonization.
Liu Xiaobo won Nobel Peace, we can take it as a sigal of future chinese polity system change.
I am waiting to look what will happen next 10 years in china.