Why do you think the KMT are so desperate to get it back?
Power and money, those Russian Oligarchs is what KMT wants to be.
The history has proven that KMT never gave a damn about China, except power and money.
Chiang robbed all gold from Mainland to Taiwan and blown out all the factories, and leaves all Mainlanders starving to death.
I can understand that some HKers sometimes loathed that Mandarin culture wanna completely assimilate the Cantonese culture.
But you have to understand that Guanhua is always the standard Chinese dialect, it just keep evolving, and only today's Guanhua in Beijing area has some Manchurian accent, so the theory that Mandarin evolved from the Manchian language is completely bullsh!t, it is just a type of Guanhua with Manchurian accent.
HK has colonial traces left by Brits, that's why its old British model has stagnated Hong Kong since 1997.
CPC wanna fix those problems in HK, it is better for HK to produce more scientists and enginners than overpopulated with lawyers and business crooks.
It is not about to force HK people to abort Cantonese, i also like Cantonese, an interesting dialect with a lot of sense of humor, but it is about to speak the standard Guanhua better to better integrate with the rest of China.
Most HK people can write traditional Chinese without any problem, so speaking Guanhua shouldn't be a problem as well.
All HK people should support CY's policy and to integrate better with Mainland China.