Hahaha. China really screwed the pooch on Hong Kong. If they had taken a more hands-off approach and tolerated whatever nasty things the HKers had to say about Beijing, they'd still own HK and it might, maybe have been a sign to Taiwan that reunification wouldn't have to be something that they needed to go to war over.
OK, even I don't think that's likely, but the HK situation really has just made things so much worse than they need to be. And it might have at least made the Taiwanese start to think that maybe that wouldn't be the end of the world for them.