In contrast to Hong Kong, where the political future is being decided by others, in Taiwan--which was a Japanese colony for 50 years, returned to the motherland for 4 years, and has since been separated from the mainland for more than four decades--political change is internally driven and autonomous.
相對於香港被別人決定的政治命運，曾受日本殖民五十年，回歸祖國四年便又與大陸分離長達四十多年的台灣，政治變化卻是自主性的。