So you are saying that historical facts and context make china unable to enter binding agreements with western nations?
In short, China's leadership today has pressure to right historical wrongs. We, as Westerners, should work to understand them so that we can make sense of their behavior as a nation state.
China has two major historical enemies with wrongs that the leadership can stand up to:
(1) The UK for the opium wars (and the 100 year fallout).
(2) Japan for WW2 (and, you know, the whole genocide / killing babies for sport thing).
When the CCP does anything involving these two nations, you can always assume the history and the pressure on the leadership is a factor.
The Hong Kong public disagrees with this, and does not see themselves as 'adversaries'.
My posts do not justify or take a side, they merely aim to provide a more expert understanding of the motives and reality.
They actually do, and consistently so. You are from where I'm sitting consistently arguing China's case without a word of consideration for the people of Hong Kong.
With a country like china which claims thousands of years of history you can always find historical pretext for anything and everything.