Public confidence in One Country, Two Systems hit a historic low in mid-2020, according to polls carried out by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute since 1994. Some, like Herman Yiu, a young politician born the year of the handover, have lost all hope of ever being able to make change within the system. "Being born in 1997... it felt like my fate was connected to Hong Kong's fate," Yiu tells AFPTV. As a fresh graduate, Yiu was part of a pro-democracy landslide at one-person-one-vote district council elections in 2019. His career was short-lived though -- in June he became one of the many politicians who have been disqualified from office. "I feel helpless, for both Hong Kong and myself," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES