I just wish it was more successful.
You're going out on a limb here.
We here on the other side of the pond do not wish success for Al-Qaeda, nor sympathize with terrorists.
Its their fault because they weren't strong enough to do anything about it? Good to know Nanking was Justified then, after all, its the Chinese fault for not defending the city better.
Nothing justifies a massacre of civilians on that scale, and
after the city has surrendered. It's a goddamn atrocity and a war crime up there with Auswicht (sp?). Now as for the matter of being invaded by Japan or the colonial powers a century prior then yes I agree with you. It is completely the Chinese's fault they allowed themselves to deteriorate and become weak. The lesson learned from the past 2 centuries is thus these: No one will help you but yourself! Never be complacent! You must always be stronger and more advanced than the neighbors (or at the very least equal) if you want to survive! (But sometimes even this is not enough if you're sitting on a motherlode of oil but do not have the body mass to protect yourself. In this situation it now pays to be a bootlicker to the biggest 'cop' around...)
China didn't really take that opinion about Macao and Hong Kong.
To tell you the truth the British weren't that happy about letting Hongkong go.
Technically they don't really have to because the famous 99-year old lease covered the New Territories, not Hongkong island and Kowloon which were ceded
in perpetua via an 'unfair treaty'. But they also knew that they could not possibly defend the place should the PLA really march across. As for Macao, the Portuguese were in even worse shape...
此一时彼一时。At the time the Western powers forced these concessions on a weak Qing empire that, in your words "wasn't strong enough to do anything about it". Now the erstwhile sick man has recovered while they themselves had weakened and cannot defend these outposts anymore. They are the ones now who "aren't strong enough to do anything about it". And so China took these back diplomatically but with the implicit threat of force. Simple as that.
You wanna free Tibet? Free Uyghuristan? Too late. Shoulda helped them more when they needed it. Instead of crying now over spilled milk.
How? Their standard of living is abyssmally low, their human rights are abused, their facing the continuing threat of Genocide, their sacred institutions have been sacked, burned, and looted, their leaders have fled their country, how have they possibly benefited?
I won't contest the low standard of living and the human rights bit, but the same applies for half of the rest of China! It's not particularly directed at them. Genocide is questionable at most, while the religious bashing took place during the madness of the Cultural Revolution. These days minority culture is a tourist draw and a cash cow, and it is actually the government that is promoting the indigenous culture while the young people are leaving for the big cities instead on their own.
Even the old Tibetan habit of mixing religion and politics had become accepted and modified. These days the mayor and the lama of a Tibetan town are usually the same person.
The days of people willing to jump off a cliff in the name of the revolution are long over.
while not the best solution a shining beacon nonetheless to others with more turbulent partitions.
Both these areas have a thriving tourism agency:
How else to keep them in line? How else to avoid them feeding heretical thoughts to their flock? 
