Kinda cute. The hope... Still, even me, I hope.
Also: I’ve long thought that the idea of Shanghai taking over Hong Kong as an international finance centre was nonsense. Main reason: it doesn’t have free flow of capital.
Also: it doesn’t have free flow of information.
And, as of recently, if you do something that Xi Jinping doesn’t like, you’ll have Plod on the front door. So there’s that.