Hong-Kong Protests
- Thread starter Pika
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They need to integrate themselves with the mainland and are doing so with the Greater Bay Area project.
They have been doing that already. But Hong Kong's strength is its financial markets. They need to pump up the stock markets, by creating more value for investors rather than restricting innovative Chinese companies.
MwRYum
Major
The stock market, as its current iteration, is more a gambling den then proper reflection of the actual, physical economy.
HK's role in the greater scheme of things to China is as latter's buffer zone, as whoever and whatever try to f--- with China's economy will have to contend with conducting their "war" on "battleground HK".
It's said that George Soros got his tentacles burned more times than he wants to count.
Some of them are getting ruthlessly exploited by their existing employers. I know one who transferred from their company's Hong Kong branch to England. They didn't get a pay raise or housing compensation for this transfer AND they're now paying the several times higher UK tax rate instead of HK's minimal rates as well as UK prices for stuff like food and transport. We know they're objectively morons for this but whether they're willing to admit it to themselves is another thing.
The UK/Hanjians spend a lot of money in advertisements and renting spaces in HK to promote UK sports and "culture". If you're a frog in the well like so many of these folks are, you might mistake the UK for being a superpower and "influencial".
MwRYum
Major
"Legacy soft power" as that'd be classified properly.
Fun fact: on Chinese internet space, UK/Britain is now typically called “带英” instead of "大英" (a term still used sometimes, eventhough it's long outdated), a slight phonetic shift from the latter ("da ying") to the former("dai ying"), which sounds close to English word "dying"...
and perhaps 美国should be renamed 霉国。
Mostly positive piece about HK integration to the the greater bay area. HK will always be a bit distinct SAAR with its local culture , global status, and it's gateway into China. The global part will shift from the past western influence to eastern influence of Mainland, SEA, Russia, Global South etc. Young people in HK understand this and embrace the new world. The ones that unable to cope with the new world have BNO or expat out.
MwRYum
Major
If they understand this they'd not have partake in the 2019 insurgency.