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About the Autonomy Revocation of Hong Kong.
Politics , Civil Rights
China Japan & Korea
Ends: Jul 01, 2021
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I benefitted directly from the British handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. When that was 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 for the Washington Post, in Seattle, at The Herald. I handled the Real Estate desk.
Seattle avoided the recession of the early 1990s because of the property buy-up from Hong Kong. I ran the first all Asian ad campaign for the paper, for a development called Lakewood Commons in 1994. We drew 64 couples and sold 8 homes in a single weekend off that campaign.
I visited Hong Kong in 2005, and fell in love with the city. It was a stark contrast to mainland China with its dueling skyscrapers--Seriously, they are dueling. On top of many are various effigies of weapons aimed at rivals--clean streets and multi-culture customs. Having massive jet lag, I literally walked the streets alone at 2AM and felt completely safe. It is a unique city, unlike any other.
Few events have been sadder to me, than the past two weeks as I've watch Hong Kong's autotomy disappear and its fragile freedom decimated by the former Communist, now quasi-capitalist authoritarian government in Beijing. Hong Kong will never be the same. The UK, Australia and New Zealand, as well as Canada, are attempting to offer alternatives to the people of Hong Kong. It is the end of an era. Normally, colonialism does not bode well for the people. Hong Kong is the exception, in that it was an island of freedom. China vowed to give it fifty years. It didn't even make it until half that before it brought the hammer down on the people and the society.
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 muzzle creativity and ingenuity. It creates uncertainty, fear and self-censorship, and that does not bode well for business. Those that can leave, will. Hopefully, with the lifelines from the commonwealth nations, the people of Hong Kong will not suffer the insolence of oppression. Already, publishers are editing their books to conform to the new rules. Over 600 have been arrested for various forms of protest or by way of 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. The jewel of Asia stands dull and dusting. Its setting peeling away and no amount of polish can revive it.
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