One Country, Two Systems Has Changed Into A 1.5 System When speaking of the change in Hong Kong s electoral system, Chao Shao-kang bluntly criticized it as subverting Deng Xiaoping s speech and asked how there could be two systems in this way. Chao went on to say that that One Country, Two Systems had changed into a 1.5 system, and now only a 1.1 system is left. Hong Kong is still not exactly the same as the mainland, but almost the same. Hong Kong s Legislative Council is dead and replaced by the Chinese National People s Congress. Chao stressed that the situation in Taiwan was different from that in Hong Kong, whose sovereignty had been taken back by China. But Taiwan, the Republic of China was a sovereign and independent country. Taiwan had been closely watching Hong Kong, paying great attention to how Beijing treated Hong Kong and its people.