After 1997: the dialectics of Hong Kong dependence.

The "one country, two systems" formula devised by Deng Xiaoping to solve the Hong Kong problem envisaged an economically autonomous Hong Kong that was to be politically dependent on the Central People's Government (CPG). Six or seven years after the sovereignty handover, however, Hong Kong finds itself being gradually assimilated into the Mainland system. Economically, Hong Kong is increasingly integrated with the Pearl Delta River (PRD) region, notably through a Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). Politically, the imprint of Beijing has been evident in a number of pos