What astounds me is the inability of most westerners, especially Bitcoiners who I would consider to be more informed and open minded than most people, to seriously confront the reality and urgency of the Chinese challenge to western hegemony. This is a massive event in history portending the end of western civilisation at least as the dominant player. The wests hegemony now rests upon a few fragile legacy advantages - military and monetary dominance- China is developing asymmetric alternatives and building its global model of empire quite openly. It would seem more likely that China will first gain dominance over the monetary systems and in this Hong Kong is of huge strategic importance.
It was the portal via which the west imposed its hegemony and it can be the portal via which China reverse engineers that hegemony. It is via Hong Kong that China provides USD liquidity indirectly to partners like Russia and Iran. It is via Hong Kong that China is building alternative trade payments protocols. There is only one credible challenger to US hegemony and it is China. Russia and Iran are already attached to Chinas empire. All nations are reliant upon China for access to its manufactured goods and commodity buying. It has already won the trade war- what logically follows is control of trade protocols and logistics. That is where Belt and Road is the infrastructure from roads and rail and ports to tertiary level services such as payments.