Both countries have signed a legally binding treaty to return HK to Chinese Sovereignty so I don’t really follow why there would be diplomatic upheavals if that happens.
To my mind the upheavals would only occur if that didn’t happen and I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t. In the overall scheme of things I see it as no more than a brief footnote, at least in the v4 timeline ('the former British Crown Colony of Hong Kong was returned to Chinese sovereignty as planned at midnight on the 30th of June 1997').
(V1 where China is two years into war against the Soviets is a different matter altogether - I've previously written at length about why I think the UK would retain control of HK in V1)
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