Chinas interests in ensuring the rule of law necessary for a global financial hub, upholding its international obligations, and the persistence of the Taiwan issue will ensure 1C2S’s endurance through, and possibly beyond, 2047. A sudden or drastic change to the governing structure could throw the economy and financial markets into flux, says Jonathan Robison. Beijing is no doubt keenly aware of the ramifications of reneging on the agreement, he says. Beijing has no direct mechanism to enforce the Joint-Declaration, but it is a litmus test of the international order of the Great Britain.”]
Source: https://www.csis.org/npfp/one-country-two-futures-how-kong-kongs-system-will-survive