The student protestors in Hong Kong may have been forcibly cleared from the streets, but their cause represents a clear warning sign for the future of democracy in Asia – and a crucial test for America’s grand strategy of a “Rebalance to Asia.” Beijing’s words and actions in response to the calls for meaningful representative democracy in Hong Kong have revealed the fundamental tensions at work that has made the idea of “One Country, Two Systems” a fiction. Authorities in Beijing will not accept a democratic system in which power resides in the citizenry and not hands of the Communist Party.