Video: Fortune Magazine: HK is dead! Really? Live in US for 50 yrs found out anything they talk about China is just the opposite. Lying is embedded into their fake democracy 財富雜誌: 香港已死! 真的嗎? 在美國生活了50 年, 發現他們談論中國的任何事情都恰恰相反. 謊言嵌入了他們的虛假民主制度
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley:
Hi, Johnson:
This Fortune Magazine pronouncement on the dead of Hong Kong is hardly a statement of fact and more of a statement of curse and an ill-conceived wish from the resentful political class of the Western world.
This is nothing new. Since the Sino-British agreement of 1984, the political class in the West has been trying, by hook or by crook, the best it can to kill and bury Hong Kong by any means necessary. Before 1997, the West repeatedly made dire predictions and incite mass hysteria and panic to cause both business and middle class people to flee the city. Those predictions failed to incite mass exodus. To be sure, relatively few faint-hearted were affected by this scare tactics and left Hong Kong for Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK before the turnover. Shortly before July 1, 1997, the Western media from throughout the world converged and jam-packed in Hong Kong to witness what they believed will be the People’s Liberation Army and its tanks marching into Hong Kong and running over the courageous people of Hong Kong who would rise to protest and resist the rule of the Chinese government. To their great disappointment, that much-anticipated scenario never happened. Instead, ordinary people from all walks of life, especially the people from the New Territory, braved the heavy tropical storms, lined the roads and streets through which the incoming convoys of Chinese officials and army slowly and peacefully entered Hong Kong to take up their positions. Disappointed and upset, they grudgingly packed up and left Hong Kong, just like the departing British officials, including Prince Philip, Prime Minister Tong Blair, and ex-governor Chris Patten, military, and expats. In small groups, many ex-pats roamed the streets and piled into bars, drunk, while pathetically sang “Rule Britannia!” It was a disgusting and pathetic sight!.
Since the return in1997, still upset and resentful of smooth transition and worse, the loss of a prosperous and valuable real estate since the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing, the West continued to bad-mouth, demonize, and de-stabilize Hong Kong, determined to sow chaos and dissension and incite riots. Since you have done such a good job in informing your followers, I don’t need to repeat what you have already done.
I have not doubt that the intense propaganda, frequent subversive disruptions and riots in Hong Kong since 1997 have inflicted severe damage politically and economically to the city, not to mention the injuries caused by SARS and Covid-19, But Hong Kong is not down and hardly dead as claimed by the Fortune Magazine. Hong Kong, to be sure, now has other major cities in China, such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Tianjin, and Beijing, to mention just a few, to compete with. It will survive and thrive and remans competitive with the help of China in decades to come.
By. The way, what I described above of the turnover of Hong Kong is based entirely on personal witness. I was there before and after July 1, 1997. I was also in Macau for the return. As a student of history, the returns of these two former colonies were historic. I wanted to see them and to feel the pulse and sentiment of the people.
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