Nice video, overall I see you are keeping fair on the illustration. Good job. As a mainlander, I have mixed emotion with Hong Kong. In 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to China, Chinese people feel very excited and welcoming HongKong back because we feel Hongkongnese were are good example that Chinese ethnicity people can also succeed in modern world. I member as a kid in school we were taught a lot of knowledge about Hong Kong. That time in mainlanders eyes Hong Kong was definitely a Pearl of Asia and we felt very happy that Hong Kong became part of China. Hongkong films and pop music was also super popular in China back then in 1990s. Then in 2005, I travelled first time to Hong Kong with my family. Though overall a good trip, it was not that pleasant. The excitement of my first day at Hong Kong soon became embarrassment and even some disappointment. I remember including the tourist guide herself, there seems to be an unfriendly attitude from local Hongkongers to mainlanders. You can easily feel the sarcasm from how they talked to you and they are always trying to imply that they are superior than mainlanders because Hong Kong is capitalism and mainland is "Communism" . That made the mainland tourists feel quite annoyed. I personally, as a sensitive young teenager, tried my best to behave well during the trip,trying to get some respect from Hongkongers. I remember literally had a quarrel with my family complaining they are not behaving well enough and got despised by local Hongkonger. That's quite a weird trip that you went to someplace trying to know more about it but ended up with kind of humiliation and embarsment. After that trip, while I still overall respect Hong Kong as a more developed area (I even applied for some Hong Kong universities after 3 years when I was graduating from high school) , I start to feel that Hong Kong is not that shining star anymore, at least not to mainlanders. Then in 2013 I had another family trip to Hong Kong with my wife. We didn't bring too much expectation for that trip and just hoping to have some good food and entertainment. With that low expectation, I and my wife overall had a good time there, just a bit surprised to find in Hong Kong people as old as like 70s are still working. One funny thing is that my mother bought a lot of dried abalone with unexpectedly high billing price simply because she misunderstood the pricing rule in Hong Kong and no one of the store staff offered to clarify for her and yet refused her request for returning the products after she found out the billing prices was 5 times more expensive than she thought. It's not a big deal, but behind that you can still smell this unfriendly attitude from Hongkonger. Now I'm an immigrant in Toronto. We had made friendship with some Hongkong immigrants and we enjoy this relationship. But still from time to time, whether in office or in stores opened by Hongkongers, we still sense that kind of despise from them simply because they know we are mainlanders. Comparing to how nice and polite they behave to Westerners, sometimes we feel we are kind like a second class in their eyes. Of course this is really case by case as I mentioned we are lucky to meet some very good Hong Kong immigrants, but overall you feel there's a invisible wall between hongkongers and maimlanders. As a young man lucky enough to grow up in modern China and not that brainwashed by communism ideas, I overall support Hong Kong people to keep their freedom and democracy, but when considering this strong bias and even discrimination from Hong kongers to mainlander, I can't help feeling that sometimes their oppose to China is more emotional rather than rational. Thank you if you bother to read my this super long comment and bear with my grammar or spelling mistakes. I watched this video carefully and it's good quality stimulate me to share my experience with Hong Kong. After all,I hope both mainland China and Hong Kong and oh yes Toronto, can have a good future.
@@idrealmcn 很同意你的观点。同为年轻人，其实我情感上并不讨厌甚至一定程度与香港年轻人有共鸣。我们都经历过或者也正在经历人生境遇的迷茫与不安，犹记得08年高考考完后很爱听香港My Little Airport 乐队的歌，他们的歌抒发了很多香港年轻人面对未来既迷茫又无奈的情绪。我们以前在学校里也时不时喜欢抱怨国家抱怨社会，但是人总要成长，越长大就越知道这个社会没有义务供你吃喝，好生活是自己努力争取来的。天无绝人之路，香港也许不像从前那么有前景，但是香港年轻人凭着他们的教育素质，真要去海外或者如果愿意的话来大陆，机会依然很多。总之，希望他们能够找到属于自己的一条路吧。
Invicta is one of the only channels on TH-cam where I'm less inclined to complement their work than say a true, genuine "thank you". Because honestly, history in cases like this are extremely important.
Thanks! I went way overboard with the history of Hong Kong but really felt that I had to given how interesting the story was. Hope everyone appreciates it : )
Patrick Goode Okay! Would be great to hear your suggestions for the next videos. Macau earnings for 3 days is equivalent to that of Vegas for a whole month. Some serious shit going down there
Excellent! I am a consultant specialized in China`s BRI program and this is very well done deep look into the historic backgrounds that i strongly recommend to watch to everybody who is interested to understand the current situation in Hong Kong. BIG thumps up
Please do this style of content with the longer video and just going over almost the entire history of a place this video is amazing I don’t mind if the videos take longer if we can get more stuff like this
Fantastic overview! I backpacked through what was known as Canton (now Guangzhou) when it was a small low rise town and the picturesque Guilin after the Hong Kong 7's in Hong Kong. One of the best experiences of my life. I can not believe how much Guangzhou has now changed to a metropolis in the past 26 years. Thank you for your great video history lesson!
When I saw this video pop up on my feed, I was hesitant to watch, as I've seen so many channels absolutely butcher the History of Hong Kong. But, as a Hong Konger, born a few years before the hand-over, I was pleased to see a lot of having been done for this video, and felt it hit all the important and key notes about HK's history.
Thank you for your videos! As a Hong Konger that emigrated when i was very young theres only so much i could understand about the history of HK. thanks to your two videos i can see how hk developed, the times my parents lived in, and the times that i was born in. thank you!
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Thank you so much for your brilliant work 👍🏽 Really appreciate your research & craft making this video documentary of Hong Kong! Just a note that the Handover date was on 1st July 1997 (instead of 1st June in the v.o.) Well done! Hope we'll see the light again & recover as a society soon 🙏🏼✨God bless 🌇
@transylvanian There was no massacre in Tiananmen square. But there is massacre in areas around tiananmen. we will resist till we can't. Thanks for your criticism
@@dostoievskyiii6251 Well, im Azorean, so from the autonomous archipelago region of the Azores that is part of the portuguese republic. So, you may say yes.
20:20 Handover was July 1 and not June 1 1997 20:50 The HK International Airport was actually a British project, and Chris Patten (last Governor) famously said that he had hoped till the end to be able to fly on his finale departure from HK's new airport 22:00 Common misconception: in 2047 Hong Kong will *not* automatically cease to be a SAR nor incorporated into the PRC, but the PRC will be allowed to change the continuation (Article 5, Chapter I, Basic Law) which means it *could* cease to exist, but the only reference ever made was by Xi Jinping where he stated that the PRC will ensure that the One Country Two Systems approach is preserved.
Actually, Hong Kong is quite similar to Malaya during early days. Both Hong Kong and Malaya were under British rule and admittedly, the British did administer the state/country pretty well during their period. But, the world has changed today with China and US leads the world.
For Malaya, the only developed areas are those with natural resources ready to be extract for the empire. And people werent too happy about the racial division enhanced by their british. As for Hong Kong, it was great and thriving but quite a few protests against British rule were gunned down. People werent happy too when they got shot for protest
I remember my grandma telling me about the Japanese soldiers who threatened her with a bayonet unless she stopped for them to frisk her for “smuggled goods”. She managed to make it out of that era alive, and although much of Hong Kong has moved on since then, she & a lot of other old folks from that time find it difficult to eat Japanese food (despite how good I think it is 😭)
@@MochieeeMoon The Japanese massacred in our land and millions of Chinese were killed by them in various ways. Until now they have never really repented, just regretted why they were defeated
@@我来外网看你们的乐子 Yep! The government likes to hide under anime and pretend that they are so innocent. Not to mention, the government says it’s propaganda to be anti-japan, which is absolutely ridiculous.
I think Chinese shouldn’t be mad about what happened anymore. Why? Because Japan got humbled. Apart from losing 3-4 million soldiers to the Chinese, they were nuked and occupied by America (there are still 70,000 US soldiers there). Also, China has become more dominant than Japan now and hard to see how Japan could pass them in the next several centuries at this point. China is doing well enough now to be able to forgive them for what happened.
I worked in HK during the British Regime, foreign workers are treated equally walang racism. Pero nung na turn-over sa SAR. Dun unti unti nagbago mga patakaran, naging hindi maayos ang pagtrato sa mga ofw. Bumaba ang sahod, mga insik na amo naging malupit. Masuwerte ka kung mabait ng amo mo. But most pinoys before naging mahirap ang kalagayan. Masuwerte ka kung maging puti ang amo mo kc tratuhin ka bilang tao. Mga Chinese ang trato sa Pinays ay hindi HELPERS BUT SLAVES. SLAVES IS DIFFERENT SA DOMESTIC HELPER. SLAVES IS HINDI KA PINAPAKAIN NG MAAYOS AT YUNG TIRA NILA ANG KAKAININ MO. ANG TULOG MO AY 2 hrs only. May cases pa na hinuhulog sa terrace or sa bintana yung katulong nila pero palalabasin na tumalon. Naging malupit sila.
I fell in love with Hong Kong when I stayed there for quite some time. Few places have made me as home as I did there and I hope they will manage to stay free. "Go Hong Kong!"
people are freer in china you fool. Too much regulations in the west. The west is practically a nanny state! and hk people never had full democracy under brit rule anyway.
@@HDsharp China is literally an authoritarian nation with limited freedom of speech, press, travel, and civilian political power Enjoy living in your bubble.
@@wheresmyeyebrow1608 everyone lives in a bubble the state wants you to live in! the fact you have these opinions of china proves that, china is more free than you think it is. not to mention nearly all youths in china knows how to get around the fire wall of china on the internet. So its not the bubble you think it is! is it?
And the pictures of police uniforms during pre-1997 is the wrong color. It should be green. And the definition of 'China' is a contentious one. This video did the assumption that even decades prior to 1997, british done work to improve hong kong only because of the looming deadline. I do not think this is the case. An important piece that was left out was the constant threat of military invasion by PRC, especially during the 1984/85 Sino-British talks. The original intent was to extend the lease. Because Britain just won the falkland island wars. The british were pushed by the banks to insure another extended 99 year lease with 'china', whoever 'china' was, was a contentious point.
Hong Kong is the Jewel of the pearl delta. It must be allowed to shine on its own. The Mainland really should just step back, and let Hong Kongers do what they do best.
When you showed the gini coefficient, it would’ve been great to see the nationality breakdown of the top 20% and the rest of the 80%. Would the top 20% consist majorly of Brits and other Westerners?
No way are the top 20% mostly British or Westerners. My guess would be almost exclusively Chinese ethnicity, including mainlanders resident in Hong Kong.
Context is an understatement. You've explained the situation so well I feel as though I'm equipped enough to travel to Hong Kong on behalf of the British and negotiate an entirely new lease for them. You shined a light on this in a way that the news outlets never would have done. Thank you for putting this out into the world
Invicta forgot to mention about the opium war and talk more in depth about what is really happening now in HK with the protest. But it’s good a Comprehensive video about Hong Kong.
I visited Hong Kong many times I was married at HK City Hall then later our banquet was held at Macau because my relatives used to lived there later I sent them to America and all lived a happy life for a long time!
I love both Hong Kong and roman history , I am shocked to find both on the same channel . With that said UK should never have given back Hong Kong also the special administrative region practically ended just a few years ago
I thought this was a remake considering how close it was to your previous video on HK. Some of least bias content on the tube, I hope your channel gets the attention it deserves
Though I wasn't born in Hong Kong, my parents were natives and spent most of their childhood the SAR. Just like you have mentioned, I was indoctrinated into the British education system (ESF, specifically) and identifies immensely with western ideologies and way of life. I wanted to thank you for shedding light on my city and hope to see more related content from this channel.
I think it's shameful the UK abandoned you guys the way it did, and now refuses to help you guys despite many Hong Kongers even waving the old colonial flag...
@@Armo1997 They were in a much weaker position to negotiate, the crumbling empire, while China was developing very fast at the turn of the century. This is even more so now, China's economic power and influence is much larger. The only help we will ever get is condemnations from foreign officials, thats it
Awesome Video Invicta, can you make a video about Macau? And maybe why they are alot less outspoken about the influence of the mainland and on democracy?
Wealth inequality is mentioned often in this video, as a counterpoint to the rapid growth of Hong Kong. But wealth inequality isn't so bad if everyone's standard of living is going up. For example, in the US, more people are below the poverty line than in Mexico. However, the poverty line is tied to median income, and the poverty line in the US is around the median income in Mexico. So poverty levels and wealth inequality can be misleading. Also, the increasing economy attracts immigrants, who create the conditions for overcrowding, disease, and the wealth inequality, since they are newcomers who are still poor, compared to the people already there who are already benefiting from the increased economy. More important than wealth inequality is income mobility. If newcomers can move up, whether through education or job opportunities, then they have a chance, whether or not they are able to make it happen. Great video! :)
@transylvanian “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand - glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” - Kurt Vonnegut This has spread to Europe as well.
@@OCinneide What Americans believe, is that Men should be free. Not slaves. Not cattle. Not given their hay and stall. Men should stand on their own two feet. Americans are more charitable than any country in the world, and Christian Americans are more charitable than other Americans. We attract the poor, because they know they can have a better life here. Not everyone can be rich, but people can move up and better themselves. You see man as sheep, as cattle, to be cared for by the real Humans, the elites. I see every man as a king. A child is cared for by their parents. An adult takes care of themselves. I won't let someone else determine my destiny. I will work hard, and suffer, and earn my way. I pity those who wait for their handouts. It's not being poor that is shameful. It is being lazy, and feeling entitled to someone else's labor. No society can foot the bill for the unproductive on the backs of the productive. Because then you will incentivize unproductivity. This video is all about how Hong Kong grew its economy, and then you come in denying that good. When society increases in wealth, everyone benefits. The wealth gap may stay or increase, but the poor and the middle class are far better off than their peers from the past. Would you prefer everyone to be equal in poverty? I dare say you would. At least then it would be fair! But I would rather have an education, a car, a smart phone, and the internet, even though there are billionaires. I have more rights and freedom in America, than any other country in the world. So no matter my income, I feel quite rich.
I love your videos and I have one request that would make them even more enjoyable for me. I wish they were a tad bit longer... 30 minutes would be the sweet spot for me. I feel like you have the knowledge and material to make that happen. I don't know who else does this, but before I go to sleep, I like to pop on a documentary, but it takes longer than 10-20 minutes for me to fall asleep on most nights. So, your videos often wrap up right as I'm getting into that mode of falling sleep and then I have some random video I'm not interested in from another contributor pop in. If you give me 30 min Invicta, I get the full experience and I'm asleep for whatever gargabe youtube generates for me afterward.
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Whan the story fails and misses it is a shame. I beleive everything. But your story is wrong. The airport was paid for by the UK and opened before the handover from the uk to china. I was there and saw live on the tv. This story gives the effect that the transaction was good. And the chinese paid for the airport from the profits of Hong Kong. Sorry but very bad reporting!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
One thing that you need to re-illiterate is that Hong Kong's transition from manufacturing to financial hub did not happen after the handover. It happened earlier after the declaration was signed in 1984 when Deng Xiao Ping announced economic reform in the Mainland. He created irresistible trade deals that attract factories from HK (then the rest of the world soon after) to move into mainland, hence why everything is now made in China. So the HK Government transformed the city into Financial hub to sustain its economy. Millions lost their jobs in the process because labour skills couldn't be transferred, but in return Chinese economy started booming ever since. The fall in GDP is expected because Deng Xiao Ping did say that he wanted HK to stay as itself as the rest of the country catches up, hence why the 50years unchanged promised was brought forward. As the rest of the country catches up of course HK's status becomes less important.
Hong Kong has too few resources.Shenzhen provide HK 70% water and electric power 60%.Of couse hk must pay for this，but they will pay more if seek resources from other countries. In fact，Hong Kong gov limited water until 1965 mainland build of water supply lines.So Hong Kong cannot develop manufacturing by themself
Laughing at me, how many factories can there be in a small Hong Kong? What is the cost of Hong Kong workers? Don't make excuses for Hong Kong's failure!
@@夏士莲欧莱雅 Yes, there were a lot of factories in HK. There are still signs of that by how many buildings that used to house them still stand. Of course it's not economical to be factories anymore so they are all converted to warehouses and other small businesses. The cost of average workers weren't a lot back then, even in HK's standard. But when 1HKD=20RMB at the time, China's labour was a lot cheaper and a no brainer decision for all cooperate leaders. Lastly I would not call it the failure of HK, because if anything goes it's a success because it was China's dream to be great powerful nation again and HK would be part of that legacy.
Hong Kong and Singapore were nothing but isolated villages and swampland before the British came along. When they left they were the most prosperous and richest cities in the world...
@Hello Hmm... Carthage was one of the most populous cities in the Mediterranean and then the Romans salted it. The ancient Greek cities were extremely populous and advanced as well. Lets not even start on Egypt or Mesopotamia.
@Hello One thing to note that helped Rome's rise was climate. You've probably heard of the Roman Climate Optimum period (or something along that line) where the weather in the mediterranean was wetter and humid leading to increased land for crops. This allowed a bigger population in places like North Africa(northern coast of Tunisia) and Italy. Leading to Rome having the capacity for such a large population. While there were no rivals to Rome in population in northern europe (France, Germany, British Isles etc.) The cultures there still had advanced artisans, skilled craftsmen and good farmers. Their life expectancy was better than the average Roman(living in Rome) and they ate a better variety of food and were taller, stronger and died less from diseases. But Rome just had so many damn people that they could make up for the losses due to disease and low life expectancy. (augustus even had to implement policy so that women would have more children (thought to be so that the Roman population wouldn't decline) and half of all Roman children died before turning 10). The cultures north of Rome were more individualistic than Rome. These weren't isolated villages in woodlands.
As a Chinese living in Hong Kong. I just want to say that the strong influence from the Chinese government is instilling is giving the Hong Kong people a lot of doubt in terms of voting and freedom of speech. Unfortunately with Hong Kong people can't fight over the legitimacy of the Chinese law and the era of one country two system will come to an end.
U know the future of HK does not only relies on the political status but also the economic aspect, as Invicta points out in the last section (it drops from 27% to 2%). This does not mean HK is decaying, but the mainland grows (perhaps over) rapidly. The politicians in HK somehow try to over amplify the strain in the political end but try to ignore the economic one, say how does it get win-win results with the mainland, that is unfair. Just like Clinton said ''It's the economy, stupid''.
Well, the political status in Hong Kong is in fact closely tied to its economy. Being an international financial centre, the HK advantages are its transparent legal system and a free market, so everyone can compete equally. But when China starts to influence certain policies in HK, kidnapping people from HK, how can people trust HK as a financial hub? Fact is, the mainland doesn't want win-win with Hong Kong. They just want to destroy it and replace it with Shanghai and Shenzhen.
@@John-mu2zz Hello John, thanks for the stimulating reply. But I think why HK somehow steps down in this competition (if it does😛) is not simply because of the mainland's influence. The legal system in Shanghai, in comparison, is highly untrasparent but it still emerges as a highly activated commercial hub (this is my intuition). Hence, I think something is not quite right there, I mean within HK itself.
@@John-mu2zz "Fact is, the mainland doesn't want win-win with Hong Kong. They just want to destroy it and replace it with Shanghai and Shenzhen" This is such a non-sense comment. And it shows how naive and self-central some Hongkong people are. Firstly, why Chinese government wants to destroy Hongkong, have you heard of any country destroyed one of their biggest cities? Secondly, to develop other cities and to have a plan B for the country future are necessary for such a big country. Why can't China have two international financial centre? It is non-sense to give all opportunities to one city Hongkong. And lastly, don't forget Hongkong is only one city of China. The others cities in mainland are already used to competition with others. For example, Beijing competes with Shanghai, Shenzhen competes with Guangzhou. Hongkong should be used to it too. All the candy will not be given to one child. Hongkong is in fact the most loved child by Chinese government.
@@jielinzhou1442 I always feel quite confused when some of you said something like "Hongkong is in fact the most loved child by Chinese government." Would you mind explaining it a bit? I don't really get how Beijing treats HK as the most loved child. You sound like HK has not already been competing with other cities, but I think HK was already an international city before the takeover and was not born recently.
here is what really happened; white people came, invaded, conquered, took a piece of land through military power, then gave it back while secretly setting HK into a path of independence eventually hoping it would be a country of its own, used to contain Chinese on the south side. White people already got bases in South Korea and Japan, so naturally HK is a great place to set up some military base from ground invasion when needed. you can argue a lot of things happened resulted in such condition but what happened is what happened. When did HK ever have democracy? despite it being mostly chinese, when did they ever had a chinese ruling hk? lmao, HK has always been ruled by appointed person from UK, now from China. The only reason why HK is having protest is people of HK has always felt they're superior to mainlander thus, any attempt to sync the two is being blocked heavily. like back in the days of segregation when you try tell white people that black people are just as equal in physical and mental ability - you'd get massive outrage. both 2 party system and 1 party system have poverty, unhappy people, etc.... what defines a good govt is good people running the govt, not the formatting of the govt. but of course most stupid people aren't aware of such facts because they're mostly pawns used to make smart people successful through any mean possible.
@@thedoruk6324 Lmao you spell "vastly" with a W and expect people to take you seriously? And no their situations were almost historically identical. The only thing vast about them is the geographic distance lying between the Han and Rome.
@@pettypractice7872 I am well capable of seeing an overtly triggered china fanboy from a distance. It is soo pathetic. You chinese bots should've said something against your own government, but all you could to is to get touchy feely and being a grammar nazi on f*cking TH-cam; sad.
Hong Kong's prosperity was largely built on China, more accurately isolated China. HK used to control majority of the Chinese import and export. While China is opening up in the last 30 years, HK has been losing its unique trading advantage. HK's relative decline is inevitable.
@transylvanian Britain wouldn't be giving it away though they'd still be returning it to China just not the communist China. I mean it would start a war and the Republic of China (Taiwan) would lose but that is beside the point.
I think they couldn't because KMT failed too early and the CCP government was recognized by UN as "the only legitimate representative of China" in 1971.
@@RED--01 Don't get me wrong, I'm just saying that Hong Kong's development in the past has been an anomaly. It will gradually return to its rightful place, at best a normal 2nd tier city in China, given its location, resources, etc. Not saying it's going to get worse, since pretty much all cities in China are getting better at astonishing speed.
@@richlau917 HK has Victoria Harbour right? It is too bad that the education system in HK focuses on Cantonese, at best a regional language. Don't get me wrong but HK has always serves a gateway for China. It could have found its niche there. From this standpoint, mandarin and English are by far more important. After all it used to be colonised by the UK. Although I always find the lack of proficiency in English and Mandarin in HK shocking.
@@frenchfrete Right, HK does have a nice harbour. HK derived its prosperity mostly from a time when all the other ports in China were closed, serving as the only gateway. But nowadays all ports in China are open to the world. Why would ships go through all the hassle of using HK port, when they can go directly to Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, etc., where goods are manufactured and consumed in a much greater quantity. In the short run, HK is still a financial hub by design, but that role is quickly weakened by other cities in China, and also Singapore. I agree with your assessment on education. The current status is indeed unfortunate...
Question: you said during British Colonial rule that Foreigners were subject to the British courts and the locals in Hong Kong were under the Chinese system? What happened when the two systems collided? Great job! Are you going to do a vid on Taiwan?
The same occurred in any situation where there is a conqueror and a conquered. The British justice system would trump the Chinese as the Supreme Court was the highest court there - much in the same way the Roman senatorial authority was far beyond local governments during the Republic :)
Thus, China won't make nothing drastic as it only has to wait less than 30 years to have a formal complete dominion of Hong Kong (though not know if that implies leaving the Hong Kong dollar etc.).
HDsharp 1) because a crime in China could be speaking out against the CCP 2) because China takes political prisoners and 3) because they kill prisoners and ethnic minorities to sell their organs on the black market There’s no waiting list for a kidney in China...there’s always Tibetans and Muslims
Just to give you a nice taste of the darkness toward which Hong Kong is now headed...this great documentary video will soon not even be viewable there, because it shows events like Tiananmen Square (1989), which doesn't show "the Party" in a positive light. Let that sink in.
Could have been less propaganda. Makes it sound like the British were angels who graced us with their glorious gifts, when in fact they were colonizers who treated us like second class citizens, and that any rebellion attacked “foreigners” for no reason. But I guess this is what your audience wants to hear...
@@钟季平 love and respect to the people of Hong Kong. Beijing has eroded your laws, corrupted your once proud police force and kidnapped your citizens to scare you into surrender. FIGHT!
@@钟季平 we are no longer there. The free people of HK are though. And what they see in the mainland is not good enough. They want better. You can't blame them.
@meder Don't be brainwashed by the politicians and nephew media in your country. In 2000, the British said that the Chinese Communist Party was going to collapse. However, it is still very good. This country has been reducing poverty and air pollution in the past few years. A lot of effort has been made. Even if Xi Jinping is not too good, but what he does is common to the general public. On the contrary, watching the leaders of your country can compete for the Oscar for Best Actor Award. Looking at India, the so-called democracy is a joke.
@MarktheSpark the west acknowledges that colonialism was fucked up. But throughout history countries occupied, killed and raped each other all the time. The West was just better at it. About the the middle east. The USA supports Saudi Arabia because they are not Iran. Their ideology is fucked up but they haven't sworn to destroy the West like Iran did.
Jakob J you’re literally stipulating that it is okay to pillage, kill, and homogenise because everyone does it. Wow. 1: not everyone does it. 2: it’s not okay.
DavetheSlave this is not true. From 1953, Iran gained back control of its oil . Nothing else happened regarding oil in 1979. The revolution happened in 1979.
Nice video, overall I see you are keeping fair on the illustration. Good job.
As a mainlander, I have mixed emotion with Hong Kong. In 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to China, Chinese people feel very excited and welcoming HongKong back because we feel Hongkongnese were are good example that Chinese ethnicity people can also succeed in modern world. I member as a kid in school we were taught a lot of knowledge about Hong Kong. That time in mainlanders eyes Hong Kong was definitely a Pearl of Asia and we felt very happy that Hong Kong became part of China. Hongkong films and pop music was also super popular in China back then in 1990s.
Then in 2005, I travelled first time to Hong Kong with my family. Though overall a good trip, it was not that pleasant. The excitement of my first day at Hong Kong soon became embarrassment and even some disappointment. I remember including the tourist guide herself, there seems to be an unfriendly attitude from local Hongkongers to mainlanders. You can easily feel the sarcasm from how they talked to you and they are always trying to imply that they are superior than mainlanders because Hong Kong is capitalism and mainland is "Communism" . That made the mainland tourists feel quite annoyed. I personally, as a sensitive young teenager, tried my best to behave well during the trip,trying to get some respect from Hongkongers. I remember literally had a quarrel with my family complaining they are not behaving well enough and got despised by local Hongkonger. That's quite a weird trip that you went to someplace trying to know more about it but ended up with kind of humiliation and embarsment. After that trip, while I still overall respect Hong Kong as a more developed area (I even applied for some Hong Kong universities after 3 years when I was graduating from high school) , I start to feel that Hong Kong is not that shining star anymore, at least not to mainlanders.
Then in 2013 I had another family trip to Hong Kong with my wife. We didn't bring too much expectation for that trip and just hoping to have some good food and entertainment. With that low expectation, I and my wife overall had a good time there, just a bit surprised to find in Hong Kong people as old as like 70s are still working. One funny thing is that my mother bought a lot of dried abalone with unexpectedly high billing price simply because she misunderstood the pricing rule in Hong Kong and no one of the store staff offered to clarify for her and yet refused her request for returning the products after she found out the billing prices was 5 times more expensive than she thought. It's not a big deal, but behind that you can still smell this unfriendly attitude from Hongkonger.
Now I'm an immigrant in Toronto. We had made friendship with some Hongkong immigrants and we enjoy this relationship. But still from time to time, whether in office or in stores opened by Hongkongers, we still sense that kind of despise from them simply because they know we are mainlanders. Comparing to how nice and polite they behave to Westerners, sometimes we feel we are kind like a second class in their eyes. Of course this is really case by case as I mentioned we are lucky to meet some very good Hong Kong immigrants, but overall you feel there's a invisible wall between hongkongers and maimlanders. As a young man lucky enough to grow up in modern China and not that brainwashed by communism ideas, I overall support Hong Kong people to keep their freedom and democracy, but when considering this strong bias and even discrimination from Hong kongers to mainlander, I can't help feeling that sometimes their oppose to China is more emotional rather than rational. Thank you if you bother to read my this super long comment and bear with my grammar or spelling mistakes. I watched this video carefully and it's good quality stimulate me to share my experience with Hong Kong. After all,I hope both mainland China and Hong Kong and oh yes Toronto, can have a good future.
Good comment :)
@@dreamcrusher112 thank you 😀
顾挺宇 . Totally agreed with you. Even though I m not from the mainland, we SEA Chinese feel the same way.
现在香港年轻人对未来感到迷茫和恐慌，香港正在衰落，以前靠着地缘优势躺着挣钱的日子一去不复返。独立是不可能的，西方国家只会煽风点火，不会真的出手帮香港独立，没有国家会为了香港和大陆撕破脸。香港现在的国际地位与利用价值已经非常微小。
所以对目前的香港年轻人，好好努力然后移民去西方是一个选择，融入大陆的发展寻找未来机会是另一个选择。现在的暴乱更像是一群小孩子气急败坏的在发泄情绪，而不是理性思考后的举动。
@@idrealmcn 很同意你的观点。同为年轻人，其实我情感上并不讨厌甚至一定程度与香港年轻人有共鸣。我们都经历过或者也正在经历人生境遇的迷茫与不安，犹记得08年高考考完后很爱听香港My Little Airport 乐队的歌，他们的歌抒发了很多香港年轻人面对未来既迷茫又无奈的情绪。我们以前在学校里也时不时喜欢抱怨国家抱怨社会，但是人总要成长，越长大就越知道这个社会没有义务供你吃喝，好生活是自己努力争取来的。天无绝人之路，香港也许不像从前那么有前景，但是香港年轻人凭着他们的教育素质，真要去海外或者如果愿意的话来大陆，机会依然很多。总之，希望他们能够找到属于自己的一条路吧。
Invicta is one of the only channels on TH-cam where I'm less inclined to complement their work than say a true, genuine "thank you".
Because honestly, history in cases like this are extremely important.
It's shit video. He just reading off Wikipedia.
@Forsaken Pumpkin no, im no longer mad at fascist pigs..
Now that's great informative content! Nice works Invicta!
Thanks! I went way overboard with the history of Hong Kong but really felt that I had to given how interesting the story was. Hope everyone appreciates it : )
Shut up you fascist pig.
@MarktheSpark Hahaha, funny man.
18:47 This is not the PRC's flag, it the Soviet Union's...
Great work Invicta! Your documentaries are always so informative.
Can you make a video about Macau ?
I second this, I find Macau fascinating too.
Macau is honestly relatively boring (and also a tenth the size).
Patrick Goode Okay! Would be great to hear your suggestions for the next videos.
Macau earnings for 3 days is equivalent to that of Vegas for a whole month. Some serious shit going down there
Sanchit Joshi Macau’s the gambling capital of the world
Invicta shit video
Excellent! I am a consultant specialized in China`s BRI program and this is very well done deep look into the historic backgrounds that i strongly recommend to watch to everybody who is interested to understand the current situation in Hong Kong.
BIG thumps up
the current situation? You mean "a distaster of human rights"?
@@rhythmdroidI hope you have the same sentiment for Black Lives Matter! African men ❤ white women against fascism!
@@Squared_Table ?? Obviously you missed the news about that organization LOL
Please do this style of content with the longer video and just going over almost the entire history of a place this video is amazing I don’t mind if the videos take longer if we can get more stuff like this
Thanks for the feedback. I feel like it would definitely be cool to do this sort of deep dive on the history of famous cities around the world
I'm just tickled pink that I stumbled across this channel. I love the varying content, from different times and locations.
Fantastic video (as always). Also I’m really excited about the fourth episode of the jerusalem series.
We'll get Half Life 3 before Jerusalem Part 4.
Fantastic overview! I backpacked through what was known as Canton (now Guangzhou) when it was a small low rise town and the picturesque Guilin after the Hong Kong 7's in Hong Kong. One of the best experiences of my life. I can not believe how much Guangzhou has now changed to a metropolis in the past 26 years. Thank you for your great video history lesson!
When I saw this video pop up on my feed, I was hesitant to watch, as I've seen so many channels absolutely butcher the History of Hong Kong. But, as a Hong Konger, born a few years before the hand-over, I was pleased to see a lot of having been done for this video, and felt it hit all the important and key notes about HK's history.
Thank you for your videos! As a Hong Konger that emigrated when i was very young theres only so much i could understand about the history of HK. thanks to your two videos i can see how hk developed, the times my parents lived in, and the times that i was born in. thank you!
Many thanks for this outstanding two-part series! I learned quite a lot.
Express VPN really is the best sponsor for this video.
Considering you kind of need VPN if you want to escape censorship in China.
Fuck you piece of shit.
Fatman13 What’s with the hostility?
@@Vienna3080 it's called freedom, you dumb fuck.
Fatman13 yikes...
However, ExpressVPN is one of the worst VPN's in China, there are serious and almost constant connection issues. Among foreigners in China, it therefore is often joked about. Other VPN providers (smalelr ones) are less activily combatted by the Chinese government and therefore more reliable and cheaper (Astrill is a good one). This comment was written via ExpressVPN, which I sadly paid for. I managed to watch this video though, albeit at 144 p
One of the best videos on TH-cam for a history of Hong Kong! Well done!
Very informative. Thanks for the relatively netural contents.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain such a fascinating historical background really appreciate it
Thanks Invicta for covering Hong Kong! :D
a good informative unbiased coverage of HK's history, Thank you Invicta.
Thank you so much for your brilliant work 👍🏽
Really appreciate your research & craft making this video documentary of Hong Kong!
Just a note that the Handover date was on 1st July 1997 (instead of 1st June in the v.o.) Well done!
Hope we'll see the light again & recover as a society soon 🙏🏼✨God bless 🌇
Movies of Wong Kar Wai- brings me here.
Nice content ❤️❤️❤️
Amazing video! Can't believe I only found this channel yesterday
I believe in you Hong Kong
Thank you for the support. We are fighting a war we know we cant win. Our motto is now "if you burn, you burn with us"
@transylvanian June 4th, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
@Hoàng Nguyên Thanks Vietnam Brothers/sisters. We stand together against Fucking China. Cantonese is quite similar to Vietnamese in many ways too
@transylvanian There was no massacre in Tiananmen square. But there is massacre in areas around tiananmen.
we will resist till we can't. Thanks for your criticism
@@htsyingying1297 yes
Love these informative video, great work Invicta!
Thank you for all the work you put into this segment.
Can we get a Macau one? I think its even more fascinating.
Are you portuguese?
Agree
@@dostoievskyiii6251 haha I think he is myself British very much enjoyed this little series
Casino, casino, drugs/ gangs and back to casinos.
@@dostoievskyiii6251 Well, im Azorean, so from the autonomous archipelago region of the Azores that is part of the portuguese republic. So, you may say yes.
20:20 Handover was July 1 and not June 1 1997
20:50 The HK International Airport was actually a British project, and Chris Patten (last Governor) famously said that he had hoped till the end to be able to fly on his finale departure from HK's new airport
22:00 Common misconception: in 2047 Hong Kong will *not* automatically cease to be a SAR nor incorporated into the PRC, but the PRC will be allowed to change the continuation (Article 5, Chapter I, Basic Law) which means it *could* cease to exist, but the only reference ever made was by Xi Jinping where he stated that the PRC will ensure that the One Country Two Systems approach is preserved.
the actual and most common misconception is that PRC would preserved the One Country Two Systems before 2047 and anything that PRC "ensured"
Actually, Hong Kong is quite similar to Malaya during early days. Both Hong Kong and Malaya were under British rule and admittedly, the British did administer the state/country pretty well during their period. But, the world has changed today with China and US leads the world.
For Malaya, the only developed areas are those with natural resources ready to be extract for the empire. And people werent too happy about the racial division enhanced by their british.
As for Hong Kong, it was great and thriving but quite a few protests against British rule were gunned down. People werent happy too when they got shot for protest
Definitely the best video ive found on this topic. Really wanted to know more on this topic.
Hong Kong is going down to the drains now. The wealth gap is really increasing with a lot of mainland influence mainly in the low-income population.
I remember my grandma telling me about the Japanese soldiers who threatened her with a bayonet unless she stopped for them to frisk her for “smuggled goods”. She managed to make it out of that era alive, and although much of Hong Kong has moved on since then, she & a lot of other old folks from that time find it difficult to eat Japanese food (despite how good I think it is 😭)
Agree! My family is from Guangzhou and when my grandpa was alive he refused to eat Japanese food because of what they did to china.
@@MochieeeMoon The Japanese massacred in our land and millions of Chinese were killed by them in various ways. Until now they have never really repented, just regretted why they were defeated
@@我来外网看你们的乐子 Yep! The government likes to hide under anime and pretend that they are so innocent. Not to mention, the government says it’s propaganda to be anti-japan, which is absolutely ridiculous.
The Dutch and English were in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia since 1511. A long time ago. For centuries. And they massacred and enslaved many people.
I think Chinese shouldn’t be mad about what happened anymore. Why? Because Japan got humbled. Apart from losing 3-4 million soldiers to the Chinese, they were nuked and occupied by America (there are still 70,000 US soldiers there). Also, China has become more dominant than Japan now and hard to see how Japan could pass them in the next several centuries at this point. China is doing well enough now to be able to forgive them for what happened.
I worked in HK during the British Regime, foreign workers are treated equally walang racism. Pero nung na turn-over sa SAR. Dun unti unti nagbago mga patakaran, naging hindi maayos ang pagtrato sa mga ofw. Bumaba ang sahod, mga insik na amo naging malupit. Masuwerte ka kung mabait ng amo mo. But most pinoys before naging mahirap ang kalagayan. Masuwerte ka kung maging puti ang amo mo kc tratuhin ka bilang tao. Mga Chinese ang trato sa Pinays ay hindi HELPERS BUT SLAVES. SLAVES IS DIFFERENT SA DOMESTIC HELPER. SLAVES IS HINDI KA PINAPAKAIN NG MAAYOS AT YUNG TIRA NILA ANG KAKAININ MO. ANG TULOG MO AY 2 hrs only. May cases pa na hinuhulog sa terrace or sa bintana yung katulong nila pero palalabasin na tumalon. Naging malupit sila.
Fantastic summary, well done. From a Hong Kong'er.
thank you for covering hong kong. -love from hong kong.
Thanks Invicta. This was a much needed video.
Thank you so much for showing the world what a gem Hong Kong is!
Thank you for this two parter! It's definitely very well researched and well presented. Good job!
Freedom for Hong Kong 🇭🇰
I fell in love with Hong Kong when I stayed there for quite some time.
Few places have made me as home as I did there and I hope they will manage to stay free.
"Go Hong Kong!"
Should try going to the Mainland.
Perhaps get a perspective on why you believe Hong Kong's freedom is in jeopardy.
people are freer in china you fool. Too much regulations in the west. The west is practically a nanny state! and hk people never had full democracy under brit rule anyway.
@@xiaojunli1833 hk living is cheap except maybe rent
@@HDsharp China is literally an authoritarian nation with limited freedom of speech, press, travel, and civilian political power
Enjoy living in your bubble.
@@wheresmyeyebrow1608 everyone lives in a bubble the state wants you to live in! the fact you have these opinions of china proves that, china is more free than you think it is. not to mention nearly all youths in china knows how to get around the fire wall of china on the internet. So its not the bubble you think it is! is it?
14:34, that School Pic is 2002, I would know, thats my graduating class. Not exactly pre handover!
Your name is Duncan?
@@aronarnarson What do you mean? There are between 300k and 400k foreigners in HKG. I have lived there myself. Why is it so strange?
Thank you for this video! It's very interesting and well-explained and it helped me with my thesis!
This is a great documentary but you got the handover date wrong. Its July 1st, 1997 and not June 1st.
And the pictures of police uniforms during pre-1997 is the wrong color. It should be green. And the definition of 'China' is a contentious one. This video did the assumption that even decades prior to 1997, british done work to improve hong kong only because of the looming deadline. I do not think this is the case. An important piece that was left out was the constant threat of military invasion by PRC, especially during the 1984/85 Sino-British talks. The original intent was to extend the lease. Because Britain just won the falkland island wars. The british were pushed by the banks to insure another extended 99 year lease with 'china', whoever 'china' was, was a contentious point.
Thank you for your superb - and free - content of very high quality. If a fringe minority doesn’t like it, they don’t have to watch.
Hong Kong is the Jewel of the pearl delta. It must be allowed to shine on its own. The Mainland really should just step back, and let Hong Kongers do what they do best.
@EmperorJuliusCaesar June 4th, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
EmperorJuliusCaesar chinese bot detected?
@EmperorJuliusCaesar perhaps China and Britain should have consulted the people of Hong Kong before deciding to hand it over to anyone.
Thank you for learning about & then educating your intelligent subscribers about my home Hong Kong. Happy Mid-Autumn.
When you showed the gini coefficient, it would’ve been great to see the nationality breakdown of the top 20% and the rest of the 80%. Would the top 20% consist majorly of Brits and other Westerners?
No way are the top 20% mostly British or Westerners. My guess would be almost exclusively Chinese ethnicity, including mainlanders resident in Hong Kong.
They were just richer Chinese people.
This is the first of your videos that I have watched. Glad that I did.
Context is an understatement. You've explained the situation so well I feel as though I'm equipped enough to travel to Hong Kong on behalf of the British and negotiate an entirely new lease for them. You shined a light on this in a way that the news outlets never would have done. Thank you for putting this out into the world
Invicta forgot to mention about the opium war and talk more in depth about what is really happening now in HK with the protest. But it’s good a Comprehensive video about Hong Kong.
I visited Hong Kong many times I was married at HK City Hall then later our banquet was held at Macau because my relatives used to lived there later I sent them to America and all lived a happy life for a long time!
I love both Hong Kong and roman history , I am shocked to find both on the same channel . With that said UK should never have given back Hong Kong also the special administrative region practically ended just a few years ago
Great video. Quality all the way.
Trust me man,your videos are helpful.
I thought this was a remake considering how close it was to your previous video on HK. Some of least bias content on the tube, I hope your channel gets the attention it deserves
Though I wasn't born in Hong Kong, my parents were natives and spent most of their childhood the SAR. Just like you have mentioned, I was indoctrinated into the British education system (ESF, specifically) and identifies immensely with western ideologies and way of life. I wanted to thank you for shedding light on my city and hope to see more related content from this channel.
I think it's shameful the UK abandoned you guys the way it did, and now refuses to help you guys despite many Hong Kongers even waving the old colonial flag...
@@Armo1997 They were in a much weaker position to negotiate, the crumbling empire, while China was developing very fast at the turn of the century. This is even more so now, China's economic power and influence is much larger. The only help we will ever get is condemnations from foreign officials, thats it
@@MrPieman00 Why didn't they offer them independence then?
@@Armo1997 Who
@@MrPieman00 The UK, instead of just giving it to China, they should have allowed them an independence vote.
Awesome Video Invicta, can you make a video about Macau? And maybe why they are alot less outspoken about the influence of the mainland and on democracy?
Wealth inequality is mentioned often in this video, as a counterpoint to the rapid growth of Hong Kong. But wealth inequality isn't so bad if everyone's standard of living is going up. For example, in the US, more people are below the poverty line than in Mexico. However, the poverty line is tied to median income, and the poverty line in the US is around the median income in Mexico. So poverty levels and wealth inequality can be misleading.
Also, the increasing economy attracts immigrants, who create the conditions for overcrowding, disease, and the wealth inequality, since they are newcomers who are still poor, compared to the people already there who are already benefiting from the increased economy. More important than wealth inequality is income mobility. If newcomers can move up, whether through education or job opportunities, then they have a chance, whether or not they are able to make it happen.
Great video! :)
Good points
@transylvanian If I can become a millionaire some day well I dont wanna be taxed! So cut taxes for millionaires!
@transylvanian I'm being ironic
@transylvanian “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand - glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” - Kurt Vonnegut
This has spread to Europe as well.
@@OCinneide What Americans believe, is that Men should be free. Not slaves. Not cattle. Not given their hay and stall. Men should stand on their own two feet. Americans are more charitable than any country in the world, and Christian Americans are more charitable than other Americans.
We attract the poor, because they know they can have a better life here. Not everyone can be rich, but people can move up and better themselves.
You see man as sheep, as cattle, to be cared for by the real Humans, the elites. I see every man as a king. A child is cared for by their parents. An adult takes care of themselves.
I won't let someone else determine my destiny. I will work hard, and suffer, and earn my way. I pity those who wait for their handouts. It's not being poor that is shameful. It is being lazy, and feeling entitled to someone else's labor. No society can foot the bill for the unproductive on the backs of the productive. Because then you will incentivize unproductivity.
This video is all about how Hong Kong grew its economy, and then you come in denying that good. When society increases in wealth, everyone benefits. The wealth gap may stay or increase, but the poor and the middle class are far better off than their peers from the past.
Would you prefer everyone to be equal in poverty? I dare say you would. At least then it would be fair! But I would rather have an education, a car, a smart phone, and the internet, even though there are billionaires. I have more rights and freedom in America, than any other country in the world. So no matter my income, I feel quite rich.
I love your videos and I have one request that would make them even more enjoyable for me. I wish they were a tad bit longer... 30 minutes would be the sweet spot for me. I feel like you have the knowledge and material to make that happen. I don't know who else does this, but before I go to sleep, I like to pop on a documentary, but it takes longer than 10-20 minutes for me to fall asleep on most nights. So, your videos often wrap up right as I'm getting into that mode of falling sleep and then I have some random video I'm not interested in from another contributor pop in. If you give me 30 min Invicta, I get the full experience and I'm asleep for whatever gargabe youtube generates for me afterward.
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Kudos to you with the correct histrorical map without the reclaimed lands, which always wrong with these kind of videos!
1.07 - That's not the British Empire at its peak; it got much bigger than that. Otherwise, well-produced and delivered!
Whan the story fails and misses it is a shame. I beleive everything. But your story is wrong. The airport was paid for by the UK and opened before the handover from the uk to china. I was there and saw live on the tv. This story gives the effect that the transaction was good. And the chinese paid for the airport from the profits of Hong Kong. Sorry but very bad reporting!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Amazing content, keep it coming!
One thing that you need to re-illiterate is that Hong Kong's transition from manufacturing to financial hub did not happen after the handover. It happened earlier after the declaration was signed in 1984 when Deng Xiao Ping announced economic reform in the Mainland. He created irresistible trade deals that attract factories from HK (then the rest of the world soon after) to move into mainland, hence why everything is now made in China. So the HK Government transformed the city into Financial hub to sustain its economy. Millions lost their jobs in the process because labour skills couldn't be transferred, but in return Chinese economy started booming ever since.
The fall in GDP is expected because Deng Xiao Ping did say that he wanted HK to stay as itself as the rest of the country catches up, hence why the 50years unchanged promised was brought forward. As the rest of the country catches up of course HK's status becomes less important.
Hong Kong has too few resources.Shenzhen provide HK 70% water and electric power 60%.Of couse hk must pay for this，but they will pay more if seek resources from other countries.
In fact，Hong Kong gov limited water until 1965 mainland build of water supply lines.So Hong Kong cannot develop manufacturing by themself
Laughing at me, how many factories can there be in a small Hong Kong? What is the cost of Hong Kong workers? Don't make excuses for Hong Kong's failure!
The correct context is always important !!
@@夏士莲欧莱雅 Yes, there were a lot of factories in HK. There are still signs of that by how many buildings that used to house them still stand. Of course it's not economical to be factories anymore so they are all converted to warehouses and other small businesses.
The cost of average workers weren't a lot back then, even in HK's standard. But when 1HKD=20RMB at the time, China's labour was a lot cheaper and a no brainer decision for all cooperate leaders.
Lastly I would not call it the failure of HK, because if anything goes it's a success because it was China's dream to be great powerful nation again and HK would be part of that legacy.
Well done, fair and balanced. Good job!
Hong Kong and Singapore were nothing but isolated villages and swampland before the British came along. When they left they were the most prosperous and richest cities in the world...
@Hello Hmm... Carthage was one of the most populous cities in the Mediterranean and then the Romans salted it. The ancient Greek cities were extremely populous and advanced as well. Lets not even start on Egypt or Mesopotamia.
@Hello shit yeah, I realised that as I was typing it.
@Hello The Gauls were pretty advanced though with their Oppida and advanced weapon making
@Hello One thing to note that helped Rome's rise was climate. You've probably heard of the Roman Climate Optimum period (or something along that line) where the weather in the mediterranean was wetter and humid leading to increased land for crops. This allowed a bigger population in places like North Africa(northern coast of Tunisia) and Italy. Leading to Rome having the capacity for such a large population.
While there were no rivals to Rome in population in northern europe (France, Germany, British Isles etc.) The cultures there still had advanced artisans, skilled craftsmen and good farmers.
Their life expectancy was better than the average Roman(living in Rome) and they ate a better variety of food and were taller, stronger and died less from diseases. But Rome just had so many damn people that they could make up for the losses due to disease and low life expectancy. (augustus even had to implement policy so that women would have more children (thought to be so that the Roman population wouldn't decline) and half of all Roman children died before turning 10).
The cultures north of Rome were more individualistic than Rome.
These weren't isolated villages in woodlands.
British is pirate
This channel growing up day by day
As a Chinese living in Hong Kong. I just want to say that the strong influence from the Chinese government is instilling is giving the Hong Kong people a lot of doubt in terms of voting and freedom of speech. Unfortunately with Hong Kong people can't fight over the legitimacy of the Chinese law and the era of one country two system will come to an end.
@Ron Leong I didn't mention the British at all. Please wear your glasses when you read next time.
excellent work! always love your doco's
Fantastic video. Learned a lot here. But the looping music in the video really bothered me.
Great! So clear and well done!
U know the future of HK does not only relies on the political status but also the economic aspect, as Invicta points out in the last section (it drops from 27% to 2%). This does not mean HK is decaying, but the mainland grows (perhaps over) rapidly. The politicians in HK somehow try to over amplify the strain in the political end but try to ignore the economic one, say how does it get win-win results with the mainland, that is unfair. Just like Clinton said ''It's the economy, stupid''.
Well, the political status in Hong Kong is in fact closely tied to its economy. Being an international financial centre, the HK advantages are its transparent legal system and a free market, so everyone can compete equally. But when China starts to influence certain policies in HK, kidnapping people from HK, how can people trust HK as a financial hub? Fact is, the mainland doesn't want win-win with Hong Kong. They just want to destroy it and replace it with Shanghai and Shenzhen.
@@John-mu2zz Hello John, thanks for the stimulating reply. But I think why HK somehow steps down in this competition (if it does😛) is not simply because of the mainland's influence. The legal system in Shanghai, in comparison, is highly untrasparent but it still emerges as a highly activated commercial hub (this is my intuition). Hence, I think something is not quite right there, I mean within HK itself.
@@John-mu2zz "Fact is, the mainland doesn't want win-win with Hong Kong. They just want to destroy it and replace it with Shanghai and Shenzhen" This is such a non-sense comment. And it shows how naive and self-central some Hongkong people are. Firstly, why Chinese government wants to destroy Hongkong, have you heard of any country destroyed one of their biggest cities? Secondly, to develop other cities and to have a plan B for the country future are necessary for such a big country. Why can't China have two international financial centre? It is non-sense to give all opportunities to one city Hongkong. And lastly, don't forget Hongkong is only one city of China. The others cities in mainland are already used to competition with others. For example, Beijing competes with Shanghai, Shenzhen competes with Guangzhou. Hongkong should be used to it too. All the candy will not be given to one child. Hongkong is in fact the most loved child by Chinese government.
@@jielinzhou1442 I always feel quite confused when some of you said something like "Hongkong is in fact the most loved child by Chinese government." Would you mind explaining it a bit? I don't really get how Beijing treats HK as the most loved child. You sound like HK has not already been competing with other cities, but I think HK was already an international city before the takeover and was not born recently.
Excellent! Thank you.
here is what really happened; white people came, invaded, conquered, took a piece of land through military power, then gave it back while secretly setting HK into a path of independence eventually hoping it would be a country of its own, used to contain Chinese on the south side. White people already got bases in South Korea and Japan, so naturally HK is a great place to set up some military base from ground invasion when needed. you can argue a lot of things happened resulted in such condition but what happened is what happened. When did HK ever have democracy? despite it being mostly chinese, when did they ever had a chinese ruling hk? lmao, HK has always been ruled by appointed person from UK, now from China. The only reason why HK is having protest is people of HK has always felt they're superior to mainlander thus, any attempt to sync the two is being blocked heavily. like back in the days of segregation when you try tell white people that black people are just as equal in physical and mental ability - you'd get massive outrage. both 2 party system and 1 party system have poverty, unhappy people, etc.... what defines a good govt is good people running the govt, not the formatting of the govt. but of course most stupid people aren't aware of such facts because they're mostly pawns used to make smart people successful through any mean possible.
Thank you so much, this video really helped with my school project.
Could you do a video on the Chinese civil war post-WW2?
Could you do a documentary on the opium war?
Superb! Subscribed. Love it. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for making this video and in supporting HKers
Invicta has officially *blessed* us with a great topic!
It is ironic that all the historic Yue kingdoms fallen to easily to the Han rule
It is ironic that nearly all the historic European kingdoms fallen to easily to the Roman rule
Your point?
@@redempress1234 Their stiutations were wastly differentiated compared to youe and han.
You compare seals to leopard seals
@@thedoruk6324 Lmao you spell "vastly" with a W and expect people to take you seriously? And no their situations were almost historically identical. The only thing vast about them is the geographic distance lying between the Han and Rome.
@@pettypractice7872 I am well capable of seeing an overtly triggered china fanboy from a distance. It is soo pathetic. You chinese bots should've said something against your own government, but all you could to is to get touchy feely and being a grammar nazi on f*cking TH-cam; sad.
The DORUK wow.
This was bloody brilliant.
truly the crown jewel of asia at one point
First of tour videos I've seen, instant sub and notify all bell thingy set. Great work pal 👍🏻👍🏻
Hong Kong's prosperity was largely built on China, more accurately isolated China. HK used to control majority of the Chinese import and export. While China is opening up in the last 30 years, HK has been losing its unique trading advantage. HK's relative decline is inevitable.
Yunsheng He under the heels of red tape and riot police
Awesome video. Thanks for this
Should of stayed British
Thank you for sharing this
Technechly the British could give Hong Kong to Taiwan
Josh Korte shit storm of the century incoming
@transylvanian Britain wouldn't be giving it away though they'd still be returning it to China just not the communist China. I mean it would start a war and the Republic of China (Taiwan) would lose but that is beside the point.
I think they couldn't because KMT failed too early and the CCP government was recognized by UN as "the only legitimate representative of China" in 1971.
Republic of China
Are you guys trying to start a war?
Nice upload! 🤟🏻
The picture of police are Chinese police, not colonial police.
Awesome Video !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hong Kong would only be at best a normal 2nd tier city in China in 2047.
even if they become a 2 tier..will be better than now..
@@RED--01 Don't get me wrong, I'm just saying that Hong Kong's development in the past has been an anomaly. It will gradually return to its rightful place, at best a normal 2nd tier city in China, given its location, resources, etc. Not saying it's going to get worse, since pretty much all cities in China are getting better at astonishing speed.
@@richlau917 HK has Victoria Harbour right? It is too bad that the education system in HK focuses on Cantonese, at best a regional language. Don't get me wrong but HK has always serves a gateway for China. It could have found its niche there. From this standpoint, mandarin and English are by far more important. After all it used to be colonised by the UK. Although I always find the lack of proficiency in English and Mandarin in HK shocking.
@@frenchfrete Right, HK does have a nice harbour. HK derived its prosperity mostly from a time when all the other ports in China were closed, serving as the only gateway. But nowadays all ports in China are open to the world. Why would ships go through all the hassle of using HK port, when they can go directly to Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, etc., where goods are manufactured and consumed in a much greater quantity. In the short run, HK is still a financial hub by design, but that role is quickly weakened by other cities in China, and also Singapore. I agree with your assessment on education. The current status is indeed unfortunate...
impeccable history of my people - thank you for this. :)
Question: you said during British Colonial rule that Foreigners were subject to the British courts and the locals in Hong Kong were under the Chinese system? What happened when the two systems collided?
Great job! Are you going to do a vid on Taiwan?
The same occurred in any situation where there is a conqueror and a conquered. The British justice system would trump the Chinese as the Supreme Court was the highest court there - much in the same way the Roman senatorial authority was far beyond local governments during the Republic :)
The supreme court is under British.
It handles appeal cases and override the decision made by lower courts.
Amazing video.
Thus, China won't make nothing drastic as it only has to wait less than 30 years to have a formal complete dominion of Hong Kong (though not know if that implies leaving the Hong Kong dollar etc.).
They have however shown they are not patient since the very early 2000's China has been trying to mess with the systems in place in HK
magnvss they’re already trying to send Hong Kongers to mainland china for trial. That’s why there are protests in HK right now
@@WalterFlanagin why shouldn't hk people be prosecuted for their crimes?
HDsharp 1) because a crime in China could be speaking out against the CCP 2) because China takes political prisoners and 3) because they kill prisoners and ethnic minorities to sell their organs on the black market
There’s no waiting list for a kidney in China...there’s always Tibetans and Muslims
HDsharp they are still prosecuted under today’s law they are just prosecuted IN Hong Kong
So are you going to update this?
Just to give you a nice taste of the darkness toward which Hong Kong is now headed...this great documentary video will soon not even be viewable there, because it shows events like Tiananmen Square (1989), which doesn't show "the Party" in a positive light. Let that sink in.
Didn't expect to see this here
Could have been less propaganda. Makes it sound like the British were angels who graced us with their glorious gifts, when in fact they were colonizers who treated us like second class citizens, and that any rebellion attacked “foreigners” for no reason. But I guess this is what your audience wants to hear...
True but the Commies would have been even worse.
@@Hunter4042012 beyter them at least they are of the same race not alien westerner
I came here to learn what led to the current Hong Kong protest thank you
An Englishman sending love and much respect to Hong Kong. Fight! Do not give up your democracy to communism.
The evil aggressor is still a self-righteous person, too hypocritical.
@@钟季平 love and respect to the people of Hong Kong. Beijing has eroded your laws, corrupted your once proud police force and kidnapped your citizens to scare you into surrender. FIGHT!
@@snoochyBoochies19888 You know nothing about the history of Hong Kong, you are getting out.
@@钟季平 we are no longer there. The free people of HK are though. And what they see in the mainland is not good enough. They want better. You can't blame them.
@meder Don't be brainwashed by the politicians and nephew media in your country. In 2000, the British said that the Chinese Communist Party was going to collapse. However, it is still very good. This country has been reducing poverty and air pollution in the past few years. A lot of effort has been made. Even if Xi Jinping is not too good, but what he does is common to the general public. On the contrary, watching the leaders of your country can compete for the Oscar for Best Actor Award. Looking at India, the so-called democracy is a joke.
I love content like this
As if the opium wars had zero influence in what hongkong is today lmao.
@MarktheSpark the west acknowledges that colonialism was fucked up. But throughout history countries occupied, killed and raped each other all the time. The West was just better at it. About the the middle east. The USA supports Saudi Arabia because they are not Iran. Their ideology is fucked up but they haven't sworn to destroy the West like Iran did.
Jakob J you’re literally stipulating that it is okay to pillage, kill, and homogenise because everyone does it. Wow. 1: not everyone does it. 2: it’s not okay.
DavetheSlave this is not true. From 1953, Iran gained back control of its oil . Nothing else happened regarding oil in 1979. The revolution happened in 1979.
Fuck this colonialist apologism
@@Yoyo1100100 lol no