My thoughts regarding HK immediately turn to the consequences for Taiwan...no matter how often the CCP says they are "strengthening" or "improving" the One Country, Two Systems approach, they have to know their actions over HK result in no viable path to peaceful reunification with Taiwan under the CCP's terms. And if there is no viable path to peaceful reunification...what then? Thinking about "what then" quickly takes me to some dark outcomes.

I want to be wrong here. Can anyone paint a realistic path for cross-Strait peace over the course of the next decade?