Chinese Belligerence, Vs. Hong Kong's Desperation!!!

I watch the events unfolding in Hong Kong, and I am deeply troubled by the appearances of what might come to pass!  China obviously feels that they have a right to annex Hong Kong, according to their original agreement with Britain, which leased Hong Kong for 100 years, in the late 19th century!  Legally, they are within their rights to expect to reacquire Hong Kong, without interference from America, or anyone else!!!  But, the complicating factor is the regime change in China, after World War II, which placed China under one of the most brutal Communist governments the world has ever seen!!!

Now that regime wants to implement the arrangement negotiated between Britain, and the old Chinese government, when the original agreement could never have anticipated the threat to the freedom of the people of Hong Kong, that they now face!!!  After 100 years of peaceful rule under the British Colonial government, the people of Hong Kong now face the encroaching Chinese annexation, and a total end to the freedoms they have become used to!!!  One can  only sympathize with them, but to impose international freedoms upon the Chinese government, as a condition of their taking control of Hong Kong, which was assumed to be unnecessary, when the original agreement was signed, would be seen as a violation of accepted International Law, today!   To expect other countries to agree with that, such as the United Nations, which is overwhelmingly hostile to basic freedoms around the world, is absurd!!!

Unfotunately, the people of Hong Kong are so desperate for their salvation, that they probably hope the bill passed through Congress recently, and signed into law, by President Trump, is merely the first step in the eventual annexation of Hong Kong, by America!!!  This hope, which may sound good, in theory, is entirely unrealistic, in present day reality!!!  When Britain negotiated the lease with China, it was viewed as giving Britain  free use of worthless Chinese territory, for what was probably a substantial fee, at that time, to a very poor Chinese government!   Things have changed dramatically, over the past 100 years!!!  Not only has China developed economically, but militarily into one of the top powers of the world!!!

 But, Hong Kong has developed into one of the financial capitals of  the entire world, and China is right to lust after their financial power, assuming it will be maintained after China annexes the whole island!!!  But, the people of Hong Kong realize that their prosperity is inexorably tied to the peoples' freedom, and that no communist country could be expected to allow those freedoms to exist in part of their country, while the rest is under such basic slavery conditions!!!  One side would have to be changed,  and the people of Hong Kong know which one that would be!!!  China could not allow those freedoms, without it infecting the rest of the country, and their ideological bias could never allow that!!!

So, what is the answer???  It would be simple for America to move in and annex Hong Kong, like the Russians did in Crimea, but it would be even simpler for China to annihilate America, with their nuclear missile technology, and they are clearly not above that!!!

In the mean time, prayer for the Hong Kong people is the only hope I can see!  This crisis is not only too big for me to figure out, it is apparently too big for mankind to figure out, except for the one Man, who is also the Son of God!!!