Have heard that Biden would be soft on China/Xi because of his commercial interest, but I haven't done enough research to justify this viewpoint myself.
It's kind of ironic for me, who identify both as a HKer and a Chinese, to hope that the world can get tougher on China, or Xi/PRC to be more exact. What they're doing is IMO damaging to the Chinese people in the long term, and let's not begin to discuss HK.
OTOH, I also understand that every country, including the US, has her own dark side as well. But then, when you put everything on a balance... It's just overall a complicated, difficult and sad situation, as life often is.
Cheers.
Complicated and difficult is absolutely the correct analysis.
No country really holds any monopoly on fairness and justice.
These debated often turn into... well this nation has this problem, and that nation has that problem.
But the bigger problem is there simply has never been a way to structure a government that fixes all its citizens problems.
Protests all over the world prove this.
How many of the world's countries haven't had major protests in the last 5 years covering some sort of injustice -- whether perceived or real?
Nevertheless, the below article may provide a glimmer of hope -- especially the paragraphs under the last sub-heading.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g201307/is-protest-t...
As for the rumored UK offer, I guess that would be nice although personally I'm not keen on emigration. But if the situation keeps getting worse, who knows... Shall be thankful to the UK. OTOH it's going to be a problem for the UK on integration, if it comes true I hope HKers who leave for UK learn and do their best to contribute and integrate with the society... Also I'm concerned about the young people who're born after 1997 (the handover), they may not be qualified... Meanwhile, it seems Taiwan may accept political refugees from HK later.
FWIW, many many HKers were refugees or descendants of refugees to begin with.
Cheers.