Marvel Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 For those who've been there... it will never be the same. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/thousands-attend-hong-kong-tiananmen-square-vigil-flouting-ban-200604145912639.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlthess40 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 My son and daughter Inlaw went there for their honeymoon about 3 years agoThey loved it and were so impressed with how clean the city was and how everyone had very high manners I’m sure it’s going to be a big change Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOwn Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 @Marvel When will China's George Floyd happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Honk kong 's status is dwindling very fast , it is now part of a greater hub of several Chinese Cities that will emerge as 1 big financial hub , it 's status of the years before the handover are gone , as the control of it's institutions is now taken over by China to limit it's growth and distribute it's wealth to other areas in China - HK used to be the 3rd Financial center in the world -that's gone to Singapore , and one should not forget that it was a relatively very small area , but very dynamic and prosperous at a time when Chinese Cities were still agricultural land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 30 minutes ago, MyOwn said: @Marvel When will China's George Floyd happen? Well, since this is the anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square with hundreds killed, I don't know what it will take for changes. HK has, for the most part since '97, had ruled itself.The mainland has been chipping away at it though and the earlier protests have seen them tighten down harder on HK. Xi Jinping has taken full control of the mainland and will walk all over HK as soon as he thinks he can get away with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 hour ago, carlthess40 said: My son and daughter Inlaw when there for their honeymoon about 3 years ago They loved it and were so impressed with how clean the city was and how everyone had very high manners I’m sure it’s going to be a big change Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I always passed through there on my way to Nanchang, where my wife taught at a university. A very clean city, the buses seemed like they were new, almost spotless. There were some not so safe places in Kowloon, but overall I loved it. I liked Macau even more... not as busy and also clean. The older architecture was neater as it was a Portuguese colony compared to England having HK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 There are approx. 300k people in Hong Kong who hold British passports. They could leave relatively fast if the need to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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