I think you said it as well as I could have.
What I was trying to say in my testimony was that Deng had many negative facets to him, but he had a certain sense of security about Hong Kong. He recognized its value, not only its economic value but also its value to China, to Taiwan, to Macau, and to members of the international community who had to make decisions about where to locate their banks or their corporate headquarters. He did not worry as much as the current Chinese administration about the impact Hong Kong would have on China. He allowed the different provinces to send trade delegations to Hong Kong to see what they could work out in terms of foreign direct investment. He had a sense that its separateness would be of value to China. And that's what has eroded.
The wish now is to sublimate Hong Kong, to make it fit into China, to make it more like China, not to celebrate its separateness and autonomy. That's a sign of insecurity. It's a worry that it will contaminate the rest of China, that it will be a vanguard for democracy and that it will have a deleterious effect on China, whereas, as the previous speaker said, it can have a salutary effect on opening up the economy, on the legal system, on contract law, and on predictability. It's something to be celebrated. Not to celebrate it, to be so afraid of it, to see its population divided and truculent, and to see students so restive are not signs of security for China who perpetuates this.