Are there primary sources?
It seems like a response to rumors but are there primary sources to the speculations they're alluding to?
It seems like a response to rumors but are there primary sources to the speculations they're alluding to?
Anyone that's been watching HK for the past 20 years would find it obvious that the PRC government intends to slowly integrate it into mainland China, and absorb it into the same legal framework, slowly but surely. Eventual end state goal would be laws indistinguishable from across the "border" in Shenzhen.
I don't think there was really any indication counter to what you're describing since.