Well china and their "One country, two systems" has always been very confusing. Especially now when there shouldn't be 2 systems but china is apparently too afraid to bring full commnunism to hong kong. Or they have a time frame for that. It would probably cause mayhem of biblical scale to try to implement it right away.
I am guessing this could be a significant boost for the upcoming bull run. Not because XRP is excellent or anything like that. It will raise hopes that most of the other projects don't end up being securities either. I mean apparently SEC thought that Ripple was so obvious security that they kept fighting years in court for it. And if they lose THAT.. Well they would have to have pretty solid evidence for those others. SEC could even see that fighting in the court would be waste of taxpayers money and drop the whole issue.