Of course it's boring: if this is what turning into another Chinese city looks like, then it reflects appallingly how much inferior Chinese culture is--or at least with mainland Han/CCP culture. See also, everything Chinese, turns to 💩
Sad. For a city that once shown so bright to now be drenched in darkness. Is a city really "international" if you drive away all the "international" elements? Of course not. HK is now just another city under the CCP's boot, and will continue to tumble until it reaches a new equilibrium, which will be nowhere near as good as it was prior to CCP meddling. The worst part is that this is probably intentional, breaking HK as a show of force. Sad indeed.
UK should have give them independece, but every nation have took every wrong decicion about the CCP in the last 50 years, not recognize taiwan as nation, give infinity money and every fatory job, forgiven them every violation tof human rights, IP laws, trade laws, envioremental laws and more
Just a friendly reminder to always post "Taiwan is a free & independent Country 🇹🇼❤️ 台湾是一个自由独立的国家！友情提醒一下，台湾是第一Táiwān shì yīgè zìyóu dúlì de guójiā! Yǒuqíng tíxǐng yīxià, táiwān shì dì yī" on anything you see regarding chna ❤️🇹🇼
If you really cared about Taiwan you would want them to declare independence. Saying that they are already independent, when they are not, is just saying that they should permanently live under the threat of invasion by the CCP.
@@neilleonardo961 And that's why a former collegiate colleague once told me how stupid it'll be for the CCP mainland to forcibly assimilate Hong Kong into mainland Chinese ways; consequences of which will never be the same for Beijing, e.g., the lying flat generation, rotten tail infrastructures, demographic collapse, and even more, with mass secessionist movements plausibly gaining more momentum with Hong Kong being one of the first to spearhead it all.
As a Hong Konger, it really is sad to see this happen, this is no longer the same country I once loved and with this, over time the Cantonese culture will be lost. I hope the US goes ahead and remove HK's special treatment, it's just like any other Mainland city now, in fact they should have done this months ago, along with removing the Developing Country Status for the Mainland; they did boldly claim to have eliminated poverty.
Just wait and see what'll happen by 2030, according to Peter Zeihan. Allegedly, unified China as we know it will collapse/implode--leaving places like Hong Kong, one of the very first city states, regions, to successfully secede from a now basketcase mainland China, chain-reacting into mass-secessionist movements--especially since COVID19, i.e., China's own, Chernobyl moment--and we all remembered how Chernobyl changed the USSR irreparably forever... EVEN without global interest in intervening HK, I believe a lot of the REAL fight is now occurring overseas, not on HK territory. In fact, it's arguable that HK's democratic future hinges on how quickly and consequently China will collapse--inevitably. The amount of lying flat youth, demographic collapse, and rotten tail projects, etc... is impossible to censor, given how it all goes back to how Beijing treats HK now. Give enough time, and mainland China will pay dearly for their foolish decisions.
@@neilleonardo961 I'm not throwing in the towel just yet; give it some time, especially by this decade's end. We may see a still plausible turnaround with Hong Kong--pretty much everywhere else that's been forcibly declared as mainland Chinese territory, e.g., East Turkestan, Tibet, etc... We may see a fall of the great firewall moment in China--much in the same way we all witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 decades ago.
The only thing that made the old HK prospere was the illegal smuggling of Chinese goods to and through HK before the reforms where so many rich HKers made their money and where HK was 40% of China's GDP. Now HK has to compete with other Chinese cities where most business people speak a foreign language and can ship to the world directly. China doesn't need HK, but HK most certainly needs China
@@SR-pr2xz I think you got that backwards, i.e., it's China needing HK more badly than the other way around, given how much of China relies heavily on Western foreign direct investment, to keep all of China fiscally afloat--even to sustain their corrupt, genocidal, totalitarian ways, BUT thanks to COVID19, now it seems the rest of the world are waking up from the mainland Chinese nightmare, built on lies, upon even more lies--especially the inconvenient fact, how much of China's food and water aren't imported from the very foreign, Western nations, that the mainland especially, needs more so, given how contaminated China's food and water sources are (thanks to decades of institutional corruption)? If anything, methinks HK will need Vietnam & India for their food/water supply, just as much as they need Europe, Australia and North America's money and tech.
Then why should respect anything CCP China anymore--NOW that China's been forcing mainland policies all over the world? Otherwise, why else are Americans and Brits being prosecuted for sharing spicy, dissident memes--YET freeing violent sex offenders and worse? It's high time the rest of the free world to get involved with China's internal/family affairs--without shame.
I do too. When the big emigration started years before China took over, where I loved we saw a huge influx of immigrants from Hong Kong. They brought money and opened lots of businesses. They added a special touch to our already very multicultural society. However, when China started to crack down on the freedoms the people of Hong Kong enjoyed, some of these businesses ended because they were trading with businesses in Hong Kong which are now closed.
@@DrQuagmire And then all the patriotic mainlanders started asking, 'Why can't I afford groceries and a home anymore?' Well, take a honest guess (down in Kowloon, etc...)...
It's fully known that Hong Kong's autonomy no longer exists and under the CCP rule of law. Yes, the offices should be closed immediately to cut off any on-going and future corruption within the U.S.
Talk the talk and walk the walk. So Lets start with yourself! Throw out all electronic gadgets you have atm, including your computer, laptops, iPhones etc. Then we can sit down, have a coffee and have a chit chat about brainwashing perhaps!
@@Yogi-Megan Don't throw anything you have, that's when you'll have to buy something(*). The rule is to not buy Chinese, not to throw away anything that can be used to prevent a purchase(*). [(*) eventually Chinese] Don't be one of those stupid nationalists that film themselves breaking iPhones. What if you carefully buy Taiwanese RAM, motherboards and SSDs, HDDs made in Thailand etc..? Lots of choices of nand memory from Taiwan, and I see Korean manufacturers more increasingly labelled made in Philippines. What we need the most is a law for websites to mention the country of manufacture of goods they sell, but as you see, there are ways to reduce the proportion of Chinese parts in your devices. To finish on the "throw your things away," note that anything bought used, second hand is good if if prevents you from buying a new item made in China. This type of purchase act gives zero money to the evil empire.
Hong Kong used to be the Hub of commerce for Asia - CCP have wrecked that quite effectively and given all the risks of "hostage arrest' to business visitors of western countries there is no way that it is going to recover international investment. The happy times when I worked there are over and done, as it becomes subject to the authoritarian dictatorship.
When I visited HK ten years ago I knew I was visiting something that was about to disappear. Like the last moments of a party before everyone leaves and it's time to clean the mess. Former HK is lost and dead. It's time to accept it.
Any Chinese city or country like HK and Taiwan (respectively), that’s operating independent of China, and have been showing more progress and more freedom, cannot possibly be allowed to exist to be a showcased as how poorly China is doing under the CCP. So they invaded HK and destroyed its successful economic system, and they have been threatening the invasion of Taiwan thus far.
China doesn't want what happened to the USSR happened to themselves? Make sense, however, most of the time, one often meet his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
The US government has every right to enact their own laws and regulations. I am sure if China pass it's own laws they also don't care what other countries have to say. As a foreign tourists it makes more economical sense to visit Japan rather than Hong Kong. In any case China plan what's happening in HK so own up to your responsibilities.
I beg to differ--especially how via Chinese-occupied Hong Kong, the CCP Han managed to export their own form of genocidal authoritarianism--especially come October 7th, so in many ways, America and the rest of the free world have a lot of justifiable business interfering with China's business--given how many illegal police stations, Confucius Institute influence operations, espionage operations, are being conducted worldwide against every other countries' sovereignty--just like Hong Kong. In fact, it can be argued that it's no far from impossible to forget about Hong Kong since 2019--IF the whole world's turning into Hong Kog in current year, e.g. the UK arresting dissidents over anti-migrant memes, unprecedented lawfare/political persecutions, mass censorship in the U.S., rigged elections in France--even failed state corruption in South Africa. With the way things have been going under China's influence, I believe it'll be more than justified for all the world to get involved in China's so-called internal, 'family' affairs--SINCE China's been illegally involving in everybody else's internal/family affairs.
@@aslouie You need to cool down. The CCP is not that influential in spreading authoritarianism. If the CCP is involved, then it is because Western globalists tolerate it for some reason.
HONG KONG - On every major public occasion in China, like the current National Day Golden Week holiday that began Oct. 1, the nation’s military is deployed to appear in endless parades and public outreach events. Online, a different sort of army is also deployed. The “50 Cent Army” is a group of state-backed internet commenters whose numbers have reportedly ranged from 500,000 to two million. However, “wu mao” (or “50 cents” in Chinese) is still a common online insult, and even the official state media have acknowledged that there are government agents posing as ordinary, patriotic netizens.
As much as you like to pretend that only happens in china, it is also predominantly happens in western countries too. More so with america approving 1.6bil anti china propGanda. That alone is telling that most bs western media anti china are all paid.
True. After Hong Kong had passed National Security Law, it lost the 1 last thing that made it special. International businesses which were previously in Hong Kong could just move directly to mainland. It is funny that when the USA decided to close its trade offices in Hong Kong because Hong Kong was no different than China, Hong Kong protested.
Isnt that the same excuse america use for "national security" for the betterment of their people. Western democracy is a sham movement aimed to disrupt global south to maintain western and american hegemony.
I find it ironic that the first video shown in the video is about how dead HK has become. I remember when the locals complained so much about how over crowded HK was. It was unbearable and too many mainlanders and tourists in the city made it impossible to enjoy the city. I hated those complainers for their short vision. It was because of those tourists and mainlanders HK was flourishing. Well China listened and fixed it. The tourists are gone and the mainlanders aren't crowding your city and now the complainers are back saying HK is dead? "I don't recognize HK anymore"? I told you all that HK would not survive without mainland money. This is it you got what you protested for! Now prove yourself, show me HK can do it without mainlanders money. They can't and now HK is even more dependent on the mainland than before. So much ignorance, so much complaining, a city of whiners. I'm going to protest because I'm unhappy and now leave because I'm unhappy and guess what! They're coming back because they're unhappy.
Yes, you make some good points and the US has no moral high ground and only want to use HK as a pawn in the never ending game of international politics. They don’t give a damn about the people. On the other hand, although mainland tourists did give a huge boost to the local economy, their overwhelming presence did contribute in some ways to make the city a less desirable place for both locals and people visiting from other countries. The mainland influence destroyed traditional businesses and they were replaced by pharmacies and cosmetics shops and many of the old historical areas of the city were destroyed and replaced with huge ugly shopping malls. The whole approach was very short sighted. As for the security law, I’m not sure it really made much difference as China is perfectly capable of abducting people they don’t like. Finally, the HK Government is run by people with no vision and while some of them might be highly educated, their intelligence is questionable. Most will do the minimum possible to wait out their time until they can retire on a fat pension. As they have no real power, they are constantly trying to double guess what their mainland masters want from them and often go overboard in doing so and thereby implementing policies that are ill thought out. A recent initiative to implement rubbish collection charges would have actually created more waste and more cost if it had been implemented. Fortunately they realised this in time. Also they subsidise EVs (this is another example of how they just copy what other countries are doing without using their own brains). Now we find mountains of perfect good petrol and diesel cars on scrap heaps when they would normally have given 10 or 20 years service.
I could go on but needless to say, the reason are many and complicated and not just down to the mainland although they play a part in all of this. What is clear is that the HK most people love and remember is gone forever and the best we can hope for is that HK can find a new direction as a mainland city with a difference. But with the almost complete loss of its international status, it’s hard to be optimistic right now.
@@daveshongkongchinachannel this has nothing to do with the US, Hong Kong isn't a US problems, your comment is irrelevant because the US is just dealing with US matters. Hong Kong is China and the US is simply acknowledging this. I don't know why china is making a fuss for a bill that the US passed. It's just calling China, China.
@@daveshongkongchinachannel You can say the U.S. has no moral ground regarding HK--BUT Trump is not like the America you're demonizing. As for the mainland tourists, there's a reason why many native HKers are now identifying more as HKers--NOT Chinese anymore, given their abhorrent behavior learned since Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Besides, aren't much of the traditional businesses you say are being replaced by huge ugly shopping malls (on top of historical areas) are actually mainland CCP China, in places like East Turkestan, Tibet, even the Great Wall, Forbidden City, i.e., formerly historical landmarks destroyed and rebuilt into a gross, Sino-fied tourist trap, lacking any/all archeological legitimacy nor tack? Why would longtime HKers want their hometown turn into yet another cesspool for yet another flashpoint for a global pandemic since the Bubonic Plague--BUT as gain of function with Chinese characteristics? Mainland masters are now counting their numbered days, waiting to see when Chinese civilizational collapse will happen, ultimately--all the while the still hearty HK revolutionaries are quietly biding their time.
@@AdrianClavijo News flash; there's never such a thing as China, much less a Chinese ethnicity. It's largely a 20th century concept, invented by the likes of Zhang Taiyang, etc... as a narrative justification to overthrow the last dynasty in the East Asian mainland. And now, the CCP will be presiding the last enclave/remnant of Chinese civilization, by 2030, with demographic collapse, lying flat revolutionaries, rotten tail megaprojects imploding, etc... further incentivizing the surreptitious movements of rediscovering the pre-Han, Sinofication of many mainland East Asian civilizations, cultures, etc... since ancient times--BUT with Judeo-Christian/classically liberal Western tech.
Compare places like Hong Kong and Shanghai from just ten years ago to now… they’re both a shell of what they used to be. Leadership makes a difference.
John Doe is a witty speaker, Jonathan is wittier, and Jones is the wittiest. When Jones starts speaking, the audience will start laughing before she even opens her mouth. During the speech, laughter will get louder and louder until everyone holding the painful stomach caused by the violent laughter.
Problem is, how's Shenzhen's coming along, thanks to global decoupling, thanks to rising labor costs in mainland China--BUT yet, still stagnating value in mainland Chinese industrial quality control?
For the West, yes, HK was "killed." It is no longer a bastion for anti-China and anti-CPC. However, the city is economically vibrant, as evident in its recent economic data.
You are sorely mistaken. 😅 Take it from a HKer and a local business(es) owner, Hong Kong is currently experiencing its worst economic downturn in recent history. Property prices and consumer confidence are both EXTREMELY low. Majority of HKers are uncertain of when we are gonna hit "rock bottom".
According to Wikipedia, Mao Ning is from the same provincial clan as Mao Xinyu, grandson of Mao Zedong. The Great Helmsman had at least 1 brother but not sure if Mao Ning was from the same immediate family.
@@tkm238-d4r I think they have something in common... a little je ne sais quoi. Oh yes, CCP tools and same last name for adding weight to their propaganda weight.
HK now is just an extension of its nearby city, but with poorer quality of life. I’m pretty sure Macao, HK and the two other cities near by are gonna merge into a super city in the near future.
Yes, everyone in Hong Kong is so scared of the National Security Law, that they will escape to Shenzhen for shopping and leisure, which is the true cause of Hong Kong retail woes. That makes sense.
Hong Konger traveling to mainland China to spend is basically what Singaporean do most of the time when they go to Malaysia. Make money in Singapore, spend in Malaysia. In a way, it benefits the Malaysian economy.
Difference is, Singapore still has all those liberal finance laws that keeps it an economic motor and store of wealth in the region. HK was a hub for trade between China and the west, but what's the point if the chinese can trade directly with the US and the EU. I think Shi made his move 10 years early in trying to muscle chinese conditions on their trade partners. With a little more time and IP theft they could've been self sustaining with chips for instance, and they might have been able to snatch Taiwan as well.
It's special economic status was predicated on the 1 country 2 systems treaty. The Glorified Tong in Beijing abrogated that treaty. Therefore, the status must be revoked.
Ok hk resident here, I arrived half a year before the uhm "troubles". Everyone tells me it was so much better before but when i ask for specifics they never can. What i can say is, its not a bad city as my experience goes. They still have lots of international business, events, great food, healthcare and its unbelievably safe, especially compared to cities of similar size in usa. Maybe its not what it once was but saying its "shrouded in darkness" is a bit dramatic i think 😂
HK never had a democracy. It had ambition for democracy. It probably could have had a CCP democracy but the umbrella movement and the poor leadership of CY Leung put an end to a HK/CCP democracy. Perhaps there is still some hope for a CCP democracy, only time will tell.
Democracy leads to people going against their leaders. If leaders want to stay strong in places like China, they must obey their national government and only criticize their local politicians if they aren’t providing enough.
This video is blowing a lot of winD justifying poor HK. Blaming everyone but HKs own actions. HK was never a country, never had a standing army, was a territory of the British empire and was handed back to China. It simply became another Chinese city and THAT fact was too much for the Hong Kongese to accept. What happened to HK was quite simply an identity crisis. The CCP government knows it and because of that, they've had to implement this national identity education. The generation after 1997 just could not accept that they were Chinese now. They wanted to be like Singapore, they had an uproar, protested and punched back at the idea of becoming more Chinese. It's as if they lost status when they stopped being British Hong Kong. That generation didn't understand that they were now a part of a much bigger country now. And now they're happily going to the mainland to spend less instead of buying locally. Where is your local pride! Where is your HK unity now? Where is your HK identify now? I remember the generation that was fighting to "preserve" was not the generation that built Hong Kong. In fact the generation that built HK was the only voice of reasons. They were the ones telling the younger generation to shut up because you're gonna mess up a good thing. In the end the protesters got what they wanted. A less crowded HK. But now they're all jobless.
I assume you are connected with CCP security services, paid to try to disrupt private US and other websites CCP propaganda. I wonder what you will do when Xi Jinping is deposed?
Hong Kong is genuinely quite boring nowadays. The early 2000s was Hong Kong's peak for me. I miss those times.
Peaked in the 80's and 90's
Definitely the 80s before the appointment of the last Governor
Of course it's boring: if this is what turning into another Chinese city looks like, then it reflects appallingly how much inferior Chinese culture is--or at least with mainland Han/CCP culture.
See also, everything Chinese, turns to
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You're young. Peak was 80s and before 1997
Hong Kong is a golden egg for China. The leaders in Beijing are too dumb to realize.
Sad. For a city that once shown so bright to now be drenched in darkness. Is a city really "international" if you drive away all the "international" elements? Of course not. HK is now just another city under the CCP's boot, and will continue to tumble until it reaches a new equilibrium, which will be nowhere near as good as it was prior to CCP meddling. The worst part is that this is probably intentional, breaking HK as a show of force. Sad indeed.
Thay were free now look what ccb had done to them
UK should have give them independece, but every nation have took every wrong decicion about the CCP in the last 50 years, not recognize taiwan as nation, give infinity money and every fatory job, forgiven them every violation tof human rights, IP laws, trade laws, envioremental laws and more
Hong Kong Airport's days as a Central flight Hub of Asia are now over.
Both Hong Kong and Macau should have been granted independence by UK and Portugal before their departures in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
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UK owned Hong Kong, so 100% agree.
Did Portugal own Macau though, lease it or just influence? I can't remember
Such a tragedy. Trust me HK used to be one of the most fun and exciting and vibrant places on earth back in the 2010s. I cherished those years.
Thank you for letting us know China Insights
Just a friendly reminder to always post "Taiwan is a free & independent Country 🇹🇼❤️ 台湾是一个自由独立的国家！友情提醒一下，台湾是第一Táiwān shì yīgè zìyóu dúlì de guójiā! Yǒuqíng tíxǐng yīxià, táiwān shì dì yī" on anything you see regarding chna ❤️🇹🇼
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If you really cared about Taiwan you would want them to declare independence. Saying that they are already independent, when they are not, is just saying that they should permanently live under the threat of invasion by the CCP.
Taiwan, China 😊
It's also one of the big reasons companies are leaving all of China. They are going down.
Down bigtime
@@neilleonardo961 And that's why a former collegiate colleague once told me how stupid it'll be for the CCP mainland to forcibly assimilate Hong Kong into mainland Chinese ways; consequences of which will never be the same for Beijing, e.g., the lying flat generation, rotten tail infrastructures, demographic collapse, and even more, with mass secessionist movements plausibly gaining more momentum with Hong Kong being one of the first to spearhead it all.
As a Hong Konger, it really is sad to see this happen, this is no longer the same country I once loved and with this, over time the Cantonese culture will be lost. I hope the US goes ahead and remove HK's special treatment, it's just like any other Mainland city now, in fact they should have done this months ago, along with removing the Developing Country Status for the Mainland; they did boldly claim to have eliminated poverty.
I was in Hong Kong 1995 it was very lively then super cheap shopping paradise and food is amazing, How i miss the old British Hong Kong
Just wait and see what'll happen by 2030, according to Peter Zeihan. Allegedly, unified China as we know it will collapse/implode--leaving places like Hong Kong, one of the very first city states, regions, to successfully secede from a now basketcase mainland China, chain-reacting into mass-secessionist movements--especially since COVID19, i.e., China's own, Chernobyl moment--and we all remembered how Chernobyl changed the USSR irreparably forever... EVEN without global interest in intervening HK, I believe a lot of the REAL fight is now occurring overseas, not on HK territory. In fact, it's arguable that HK's democratic future hinges on how quickly and consequently China will collapse--inevitably.
The amount of lying flat youth, demographic collapse, and rotten tail projects, etc... is impossible to censor, given how it all goes back to how Beijing treats HK now. Give enough time, and mainland China will pay dearly for their foolish decisions.
@@neilleonardo961 I'm not throwing in the towel just yet; give it some time, especially by this decade's end. We may see a still plausible turnaround with Hong Kong--pretty much everywhere else that's been forcibly declared as mainland Chinese territory, e.g., East Turkestan, Tibet, etc... We may see a fall of the great firewall moment in China--much in the same way we all witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 decades ago.
The only thing that made the old HK prospere was the illegal smuggling of Chinese goods to and through HK before the reforms where so many rich HKers made their money and where HK was 40% of China's GDP. Now HK has to compete with other Chinese cities where most business people speak a foreign language and can ship to the world directly. China doesn't need HK, but HK most certainly needs China
@@SR-pr2xz I think you got that backwards, i.e., it's China needing HK more badly than the other way around, given how much of China relies heavily on Western foreign direct investment, to keep all of China fiscally afloat--even to sustain their corrupt, genocidal, totalitarian ways, BUT thanks to COVID19, now it seems the rest of the world are waking up from the mainland Chinese nightmare, built on lies, upon even more lies--especially the inconvenient fact, how much of China's food and water aren't imported from the very foreign, Western nations, that the mainland especially, needs more so, given how contaminated China's food and water sources are (thanks to decades of institutional corruption)?
If anything, methinks HK will need Vietnam & India for their food/water supply, just as much as they need Europe, Australia and North America's money and tech.
Wow, its really bad in China!
It is CCP that did not respect the agreement to 50 years of one country two systems by forcing mainland policies, HK is pretty much CN
Communist know nothing about respect and human rights. They are always right instead.
Then why should respect anything CCP China anymore--NOW that China's been forcing mainland policies all over the world? Otherwise, why else are Americans and Brits being prosecuted for sharing spicy, dissident memes--YET freeing violent sex offenders and worse?
It's high time the rest of the free world to get involved with China's internal/family affairs--without shame.
I do too. When the big emigration started years before China took over, where I loved we saw a huge influx of immigrants from Hong Kong. They brought money and opened lots of businesses. They added a special touch to our already very multicultural society. However, when China started to crack down on the freedoms the people of Hong Kong enjoyed, some of these businesses ended because they were trading with businesses in Hong Kong which are now closed.
@@DrQuagmire And then all the patriotic mainlanders started asking, 'Why can't I afford groceries and a home anymore?'
Well, take a honest guess (down in Kowloon, etc...)...
@@aslouie the patriotic mainlanders continue to stay ignorant even though the information is staring them in the face
I stopped seeing Hong Kong as "the Pearl of Asia" after 1997.
The Philippines before WWII is the original “pearl of the orient” to begin with. Or more specifically, Manila.
Bingo.
It's fully known that Hong Kong's autonomy no longer exists and under the CCP rule of law.
Yes, the offices should be closed immediately to cut off any on-going and future corruption within the U.S.
We all saw this coming and now it's Happened.. 😢
Let's all further help the Chinese out by reducing any Made-in-China purchases whenever humanly possible.
Keep up the good work! I see your comments often. ❤
Talk the talk and walk the walk.
So Lets start with yourself! Throw out all electronic gadgets you have atm, including your computer, laptops, iPhones etc. Then we can sit down, have a coffee and have a chit chat about brainwashing perhaps!
@@Yogi-Megan Don't throw anything you have, that's when you'll have to buy something(*). The rule is to not buy Chinese, not to throw away anything that can be used to prevent a purchase(*). [(*) eventually Chinese]
Don't be one of those stupid nationalists that film themselves breaking iPhones.
What if you carefully buy Taiwanese RAM, motherboards and SSDs, HDDs made in Thailand etc..? Lots of choices of nand memory from Taiwan, and I see Korean manufacturers more increasingly labelled made in Philippines.
What we need the most is a law for websites to mention the country of manufacture of goods they sell, but as you see, there are ways to reduce the proportion of Chinese parts in your devices.
To finish on the "throw your things away," note that anything bought used, second hand is good if if prevents you from buying a new item made in China. This type of purchase act gives zero money to the evil empire.
Hong Kong used to be the Hub of commerce for Asia - CCP have wrecked that quite effectively and given all the risks of "hostage arrest' to business visitors of western countries there is no way that it is going to recover international investment. The happy times when I worked there are over and done, as it becomes subject to the authoritarian dictatorship.
When I visited HK ten years ago I knew I was visiting something that was about to disappear. Like the last moments of a party before everyone leaves and it's time to clean the mess. Former HK is lost and dead. It's time to accept it.
Hong Kong is a jewel in the hands of the British it was a posh and vibrant city now it has become just an ordinary mainland Chinese City
They made a mistake giving it away. I hope the decision makers at the time live in current day hong kong as their version of hell
Any Chinese city or country like HK and Taiwan (respectively), that’s operating independent of China, and have been showing more progress and more freedom, cannot possibly be allowed to exist to be a showcased as how poorly China is doing under the CCP. So they invaded HK and destroyed its successful economic system, and they have been threatening the invasion of Taiwan thus far.
Hong Kong was takeb by China from force, so of course after tey got it back they have to assert control over it.
Visited Hong Kong over a dozens times look that's over
I am STUNNED that Li Ka-shing looks to be one of the first to see the writing on the wall, that the CCP were becoming more oppressive a decade ago.
China doesn't want what happened to the USSR happened to themselves?
Make sense, however, most of the time, one often meet his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
The US government has every right to enact their own laws and regulations. I am sure if China pass it's own laws they also don't care what other countries have to say. As a foreign tourists it makes more economical sense to visit Japan rather than Hong Kong. In any case China plan what's happening in HK so own up to your responsibilities.
I beg to differ--especially how via Chinese-occupied Hong Kong, the CCP Han managed to export their own form of genocidal authoritarianism--especially come October 7th, so in many ways, America and the rest of the free world have a lot of justifiable business interfering with China's business--given how many illegal police stations, Confucius Institute influence operations, espionage operations, are being conducted worldwide against every other countries' sovereignty--just like Hong Kong.
In fact, it can be argued that it's no far from impossible to forget about Hong Kong since 2019--IF the whole world's turning into Hong Kog in current year, e.g. the UK arresting dissidents over anti-migrant memes, unprecedented lawfare/political persecutions, mass censorship in the U.S., rigged elections in France--even failed state corruption in South Africa.
With the way things have been going under China's influence, I believe it'll be more than justified for all the world to get involved in China's so-called internal, 'family' affairs--SINCE China's been illegally involving in everybody else's internal/family affairs.
@@aslouie You need to cool down. The CCP is not that influential in spreading authoritarianism. If the CCP is involved, then it is because Western globalists tolerate it for some reason.
Hong Kong was a model that worked better than anywhere else until authoritarianism destroyed it. It was my favorite city to go to for many years.
It's just another city under party's boot now. What did you expect?
HONG KONG - On every major public occasion in China, like the current National Day Golden Week holiday that began Oct. 1, the nation’s military is deployed to appear in endless parades and public outreach events. Online, a different sort of army is also deployed. The “50 Cent Army” is a group of state-backed internet commenters whose numbers have reportedly ranged from 500,000 to two million. However, “wu mao” (or “50 cents” in Chinese) is still a common online insult, and even the official state media have acknowledged that there are government agents posing as ordinary, patriotic netizens.
As much as you like to pretend that only happens in china, it is also predominantly happens in western countries too. More so with america approving 1.6bil anti china propGanda. That alone is telling that most bs western media anti china are all paid.
True. After Hong Kong had passed National Security Law, it lost the 1 last thing that made it special. International businesses which were previously in Hong Kong could just move directly to mainland.
It is funny that when the USA decided to close its trade offices in Hong Kong because Hong Kong was no different than China, Hong Kong protested.
CCP: "....National Security is of utmost important.....more so than the betterment of the people...."
Isnt that the same excuse america use for "national security" for the betterment of their people. Western democracy is a sham movement aimed to disrupt global south to maintain western and american hegemony.
I can't stop laughing.
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I find it ironic that the first video shown in the video is about how dead HK has become. I remember when the locals complained so much about how over crowded HK was. It was unbearable and too many mainlanders and tourists in the city made it impossible to enjoy the city. I hated those complainers for their short vision. It was because of those tourists and mainlanders HK was flourishing. Well China listened and fixed it. The tourists are gone and the mainlanders aren't crowding your city and now the complainers are back saying HK is dead? "I don't recognize HK anymore"? I told you all that HK would not survive without mainland money. This is it you got what you protested for! Now prove yourself, show me HK can do it without mainlanders money. They can't and now HK is even more dependent on the mainland than before.
So much ignorance, so much complaining, a city of whiners. I'm going to protest because I'm unhappy and now leave because I'm unhappy and guess what! They're coming back because they're unhappy.
Yes, you make some good points and the US has no moral high ground and only want to use HK as a pawn in the never ending game of international politics. They don’t give a damn about the people. On the other hand, although mainland tourists did give a huge boost to the local economy, their overwhelming presence did contribute in some ways to make the city a less desirable place for both locals and people visiting from other countries. The mainland influence destroyed traditional businesses and they were replaced by pharmacies and cosmetics shops and many of the old historical areas of the city were destroyed and replaced with huge ugly shopping malls. The whole approach was very short sighted.
As for the security law, I’m not sure it really made much difference as China is perfectly capable of abducting people they don’t like.
Finally, the HK Government is run by people with no vision and while some of them might be highly educated, their intelligence is questionable. Most will do the minimum possible to wait out their time until they can retire on a fat pension. As they have no real power, they are constantly trying to double guess what their mainland masters want from them and often go overboard in doing so and thereby implementing policies that are ill thought out. A recent initiative to implement rubbish collection charges would have actually created more waste and more cost if it had been implemented. Fortunately they realised this in time. Also they subsidise EVs (this is another example of how they just copy what other countries are doing without using their own brains). Now we find mountains of perfect good petrol and diesel cars on scrap heaps when they would normally have given 10 or 20 years service.
I could go on but needless to say, the reason are many and complicated and not just down to the mainland although they play a part in all of this. What is clear is that the HK most people love and remember is gone forever and the best we can hope for is that HK can find a new direction as a mainland city with a difference. But with the almost complete loss of its international status, it’s hard to be optimistic right now.
@@daveshongkongchinachannel this has nothing to do with the US, Hong Kong isn't a US problems, your comment is irrelevant because the US is just dealing with US matters. Hong Kong is China and the US is simply acknowledging this. I don't know why china is making a fuss for a bill that the US passed. It's just calling China, China.
@@daveshongkongchinachannel You can say the U.S. has no moral ground regarding HK--BUT Trump is not like the America you're demonizing. As for the mainland tourists, there's a reason why many native HKers are now identifying more as HKers--NOT Chinese anymore, given their abhorrent behavior learned since Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Besides, aren't much of the traditional businesses you say are being replaced by huge ugly shopping malls (on top of historical areas) are actually mainland CCP China, in places like East Turkestan, Tibet, even the Great Wall, Forbidden City, i.e., formerly historical landmarks destroyed and rebuilt into a gross, Sino-fied tourist trap, lacking any/all archeological legitimacy nor tack?
Why would longtime HKers want their hometown turn into yet another cesspool for yet another flashpoint for a global pandemic since the Bubonic Plague--BUT as gain of function with Chinese characteristics?
Mainland masters are now counting their numbered days, waiting to see when Chinese civilizational collapse will happen, ultimately--all the while the still hearty HK revolutionaries are quietly biding their time.
@@AdrianClavijo News flash; there's never such a thing as China, much less a Chinese ethnicity.
It's largely a 20th century concept, invented by the likes of Zhang Taiyang, etc... as a narrative justification to overthrow the last dynasty in the East Asian mainland. And now, the CCP will be presiding the last enclave/remnant of Chinese civilization, by 2030, with demographic collapse, lying flat revolutionaries, rotten tail megaprojects imploding, etc... further incentivizing the surreptitious movements of rediscovering the pre-Han, Sinofication of many mainland East Asian civilizations, cultures, etc... since ancient times--BUT with Judeo-Christian/classically liberal Western tech.
Compare places like Hong Kong and Shanghai from just ten years ago to now… they’re both a shell of what they used to be. Leadership makes a difference.
Hong Kong was a dream city to travel to. Sadly, I will never see the city I once admired so long ago 😔
Makes sense to close hong kongs separate offices. Its part of china, under chinese ccp control.
Very sad !
John Doe is a witty speaker, Jonathan is wittier, and Jones is the wittiest. When Jones starts speaking, the audience will start laughing before she even opens her mouth. During the speech, laughter will get louder and louder until everyone holding the painful stomach caused by the violent laughter.
Bet the bots go crazy on this one.
I think that when china started to build Shenzhen that was the goal 🧐
Problem is, how's Shenzhen's coming along, thanks to global decoupling, thanks to rising labor costs in mainland China--BUT yet, still stagnating value in mainland Chinese industrial quality control?
For the West, yes, HK was "killed." It is no longer a bastion for anti-China and anti-CPC. However, the city is economically vibrant, as evident in its recent economic data.
You are sorely mistaken. 😅
Take it from a HKer and a local business(es) owner, Hong Kong is currently experiencing its worst economic downturn in recent history. Property prices and consumer confidence are both EXTREMELY low. Majority of HKers are uncertain of when we are gonna hit "rock bottom".
Hong Kong is not vibrant in any sense.
Happy
CCP and mainland is envious of the freedom in hong kong.
Not envious. Jealous and afraid.
@@lindabastable3021 ok
Asgard is not a place, it’s the people.
Sad
Is Mao Ning the sister of Mao Xinyu?
According to Wikipedia, Mao Ning is from the same provincial clan as Mao Xinyu, grandson of Mao Zedong. The Great Helmsman had at least 1 brother but not sure if Mao Ning was from the same immediate family.
@@tkm238-d4r I think they have something in common... a little je ne sais quoi. Oh yes, CCP tools and same last name for adding weight to their propaganda weight.
HK in the late 80s and early 90s was peak.
HK now is just an extension of its nearby city, but with poorer quality of life. I’m pretty sure Macao, HK and the two other cities near by are gonna merge into a super city in the near future.
Poorest people mindset
Yes, everyone in Hong Kong is so scared of the National Security Law, that they will escape to Shenzhen for shopping and leisure, which is the true cause of Hong Kong retail woes.
That makes sense.
What else can one expect when the entire system is a joke.
Hong Konger traveling to mainland China to spend is basically what Singaporean do most of the time when they go to Malaysia. Make money in Singapore, spend in Malaysia. In a way, it benefits the Malaysian economy.
Difference is, Singapore still has all those liberal finance laws that keeps it an economic motor and store of wealth in the region. HK was a hub for trade between China and the west, but what's the point if the chinese can trade directly with the US and the EU. I think Shi made his move 10 years early in trying to muscle chinese conditions on their trade partners. With a little more time and IP theft they could've been self sustaining with chips for instance, and they might have been able to snatch Taiwan as well.
760milion citizens replaced form mainland.🤐
In the 90s Hong Kong invented the car upgrading hobby the world, especially the young got into.
The Philippines should really retake the title of “Pearl of the Orient” since that was originally Manila during the Spanish Colonial period.
Hong Kong is done..
This is what Carrie Lam and John Lee want HK to be. So in a way, it is a success.
I want to learn Cantonese, but I am worried that it will have no place in the future the way things are going. Should I still go for it?
Blame Joshua Wong, Jimmy Lai, Benny Tai
Smh
If Agnes Chow isn’t going back, nobody who stands for freedom of speech should visit Hong Kong.
Agnes Chow identifies with Japan. 😊
Hong Kong tourist attractions was 100% now 20% it was not as popular as before now that it is govern by china with iron hand!
Used to dream of taken my family and going back to Hong Kong not after China took control the way they have
Amazing what communism can do in such a short time.
Future of hong kong is same as kowloon walled city.
Just close …the Chinese doesn’t give a damn…..
Hong Kong is now like Venezuela.
Hongkong was a Economic power before the takeover
Why do you never mention British involvement in Hong Kong??? Why?
Hongkong was killed 4years ago. RIP
It's special economic status was predicated on the 1 country 2 systems treaty.
The Glorified Tong in Beijing abrogated that treaty. Therefore, the status must be revoked.
Trump might well rush to protect these offices. Recently he's demonstrated that's how he rolls, or that he's just fraidy
HK people acted like a spoiled kid back in 2019
Soon i believe a woman will be very thankful to marry a man for a loaf of bread. :(
Go to Singapore now.
2049
And the British 🇬🇧 governments did nothing but look away.
didn't they immediately offer every Hong Konger a British passport when China reneged on their promise to protect liberties of the people?
Cowards now they copy the communist and crack down on their own citizens... cool..
how did it end up becoming britain's fault when the communist party retreated the promises made by the ching dynasty.
I guess british rule is much better isn't it. Any regrettable thoughts?
@@jarrelleandersola508 Yes. Look at the UK. British rule is an ass. Failed state.
Yep, but at least it's not as much like on a very tight grip on its citizens and the UK is not good right now on its immigrants and asylum seekers.
Ok hk resident here, I arrived half a year before the uhm "troubles". Everyone tells me it was so much better before but when i ask for specifics they never can.
What i can say is, its not a bad city as my experience goes. They still have lots of international business, events, great food, healthcare and its unbelievably safe, especially compared to cities of similar size in usa.
Maybe its not what it once was but saying its "shrouded in darkness" is a bit dramatic i think 😂
nevermind... just checked with wife who's from here and she tells me the economy is terrible.
Where live on boat Hong Kong Harbor brother bilge pump operator
LIES. It brought back peace and security. Every jurisdiction has security laws, HK shouldn’t be any different!
As a Hong Konger. It's perfect now. Safe. Prosperous. Integrated beautifully.
Lol, don't kidding yourself.
sources: internet - wow i will be sure to check your research, thanks for providing the source! lol that is so unhelpful
So before they protested the country's unity, then now go north to shop until hk breaks...sounds really logical
HK never had a democracy. It had ambition for democracy. It probably could have had a CCP democracy but the umbrella movement and the poor leadership of CY Leung put an end to a HK/CCP democracy.
Perhaps there is still some hope for a CCP democracy, only time will tell.
CCP democracy? You don't say!
Democracy leads to people going against their leaders. If leaders want to stay strong in places like China, they must obey their national government and only criticize their local politicians if they aren’t providing enough.
It's always laughable to me when my home country of the US attempts to lecture anyone about morality.
Daily BS channel.
This is why Taiwan will fight to survive. 🤷🏼♀️
Nope, keep begging 😂
This video is blowing a lot of winD justifying poor HK. Blaming everyone but HKs own actions. HK was never a country, never had a standing army, was a territory of the British empire and was handed back to China. It simply became another Chinese city and THAT fact was too much for the Hong Kongese to accept. What happened to HK was quite simply an identity crisis. The CCP government knows it and because of that, they've had to implement this national identity education. The generation after 1997 just could not accept that they were Chinese now. They wanted to be like Singapore, they had an uproar, protested and punched back at the idea of becoming more Chinese. It's as if they lost status when they stopped being British Hong Kong. That generation didn't understand that they were now a part of a much bigger country now.
And now they're happily going to the mainland to spend less instead of buying locally. Where is your local pride! Where is your HK unity now? Where is your HK identify now?
I remember the generation that was fighting to "preserve" was not the generation that built Hong Kong. In fact the generation that built HK was the only voice of reasons. They were the ones telling the younger generation to shut up because you're gonna mess up a good thing.
In the end the protesters got what they wanted. A less crowded HK. But now they're all jobless.
the US " Protects Human Rights"❓ 🤣 😂 Ask Julian Assange, the Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans, Palestinians
It’s Complicated
And communist red China protect human rights???
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Assange is the disgrace of Australia.
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Lol wumaos are up early today
I assume you are connected with CCP security services, paid to try to disrupt private US and other websites CCP propaganda. I wonder what you will do when Xi Jinping is deposed?
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