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About the Autonomy Revocation of Hong Kong.
Politics , Civil Rights
China Japan & Korea
Ends: Jul 01, 2022
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I benefitted directly from the British handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. When announced in the early 1990s, the wealthy of Hong Kong bought up real estate in Northern Washington State and Canada. At the time, I worked in advertising for the Washington Post in Seattle on the Real Estate desk.
Seattle avoided the recession of the early 1990s because of this real estate boom. I developed and ran the first all-Asian ad campaign for the paper, featuring a development called Lakewood Commons in 1994. We drew 64 couples and sold eight homes in a single weekend off that campaign.
In 2005, I visited Hong Kong and fell in love with the city. I also fell out of love with my fiance on the same trip; requiring I sit smashed in the center seat, unable to move due to my long legs, for 23 hours in coach when he had the window was the first hint. There would be more, including my throwing my engagement ring at him in the swanky Mandarin Oriental dining room. But I digress...
Hong Kong was a stark contrast to mainland China with its dueling skyscrapers. Seriously, the buildings are dueling. On top of many are various effigies of weapons aimed at rivals, clean streets, and multi-cultural customs. Having massive jet lag, I walked the streets alone at 2 AM and felt completely safe. It is a unique city, unlike any other.
July 1, 2020:
Few events have been sadder to me than the past two weeks as I've watched Hong Kong's autotomy disappear and its fragile freedom decimated by the former Communist, now the quasi-capitalist authoritarian government in Beijing. Hong Kong will never be the same, and the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are attempting to offer alternatives to the people of Hong Kong.
Usually, colonialism does not bode well for colonized. Hong Kong is the exception during the latter half of the 20th Century. It was an island of freedom in a sea of extreme censorship, dictatorship, and control. China vowed to give it fifty years before it threw the city under the bus of authoritarianism. Hong Kong made it just twenty-three.
Hong Kong will never be the center of international commerce it was. The very nature of authoritarianism, its constant surveillance, and stifling of thought and action destroy creativity and ingenuity. It creates uncertainty, fear, and self-censorship, which does not bode well for business. People who can exit, will. Hopefully, with the lifelines from the commonwealth nations, the people of Hong Kong will avoid absolute oppression. Already, publishers are editing their books to conform to the new rules. Over 600 people are under arrest for various forms of protest or association.
July 1, 2020, will forever be known as a sad day for human rights; it sees the end of Hong Kong, 28 years early. It is the end of an era and the end of a legend.
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