China bridges the gap to Hong Kong
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Hong Kong's financial markets, Shenzhen's technology and Guangdong's manufacturing have the potential to turn the Greater Bay Area into an economic powerhouse. The FT's Ben Bland reports.
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If China listened to the west, you know what it could have become by looking at a lot of poor countries around the world today.
Poor countries? Like Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea?
I don't really see how this is a negative thing for Hong Kong to cooperate more with mainland China, no one force you to work or live in mainland China, I think people are just overreacting and biased to mainland China.
fea hhh yet
Yes
Propaganda machine working well. Western media spitting poison
@@lolheaming the only brainwashed person is you. China harvests it's own people's organs and sticks muslims in concentration camps, and kills people for trying to expose the truth.
and they also pay people to post on the internet, just like you're doing.
Traditionally, UK would show interest of democracy in any of their colonies few years before ending rulership. Coincidence?
And here building an overpass is a big deal...
Damn, China is beautiful!
Agree!
a lot of smog though
Nope, China is an evil country.
IamHKer hk is a part China.this is the fact
Vincent Ye so? HK is part of China do not mean that China is not a evil country.
Typical Western media, never forget to mock China a little bit at the end of the news. I dunno how are the liberty movements are related to the bridge, I know maybe these two terms are linked but still very weird to put them together in one news
I was born a Hong Kong and I am proud of this bridge. There are many HKers who are also proud of this, the haters don't speak for all of us!
香港需要更多你这样的人
必须骄傲啊，这样的桥现在也只有中国造出来了，能不骄傲吗，没点资本能造出来吗
I dnt understand what's wrong with the bridge
I can see British still want to colonize HongKong.
So salt.
Once a colonizer, always a colonizer.
China is colonizing Hong Kong
IamHKer
if london is controlled by french, that is colonization.
if london is controlled by british, that is management.
Huyou Strategically Actually some part of Hong Kong is owned by Britain. The CCP force Britain to give back. In fact, the land of Hong Kong is not own by ChinaPR. Hong Kong have a longer history than ChinaPR. The election is controlled by the CCP as well as there are no democracy under Bristish time. But the culture of mainlanders and Hong Kongers is different. You wont saying that Xinjiang and Tibet are not colonized by CCP
Huyou Strategically Actually Britain is better than ChinPR which is a autocracy.
IamHKer
what CCP force britain give back, besides sovereign? Please make it precise.
PRC or ROC just the full name of china, like USA and CSA in american civil wars.
Hongkong is still highly self-ruling, with GDP per cap 43000 dollars/year.
Xinjiang and tibet belong to china more than 300 years. if they dont belong to china... the whites in america, austrilia, new zeland should all go back to europe. Dont apply double-standards to China.
If you think Hongkong belongs to Britain because china is autocracy, your country should join in India, which is the biggest democratic country~
Hong Kong was never democratic in the first place.
Then does that mean it should not have a democratically elected government in the future ?
nsr500 then it does not mean HK will necessary have a democratic gov
Lisa Black Cat Here is the British logic. All okey dokey while we were sending White / British governors to HK. But now, they should have an elected governor because democracy is important.
Are people from your country all dumb or just you?
Fools always think they’re enlightened.
Li Liu I recall a colleague of mine telling her team she is very smart because she has high EQ 😏😏😏
Was there democracy under British control ever before?
Max They give them some kind of democracy just before giving back HK to China to poison the relationship of HK and mainland.
Get real guys. The colonising British? An Irish guy said to me in response to - The Sun Never Set on The British Empire. It's because YOU CANNOT TRUST THEM IN THE DARK.
The British Crown operating as a branch of Rome's modern empire controls much of the East through its former empire and East India Company. Jesuits established themselves in Asia around the 16th century. The British Crown and France made war on China forcing them to open their ports and allow their merchants to do business internally. Hong Kong was a British Colony until 1997 and the banks and merchant companies are still dominated by British bankers today. HSBC is a British-Hong Kong based bank with assets estimated at over 2.3 trillion. HSBC was founded by Thomas Sutherland of Scottish Peerage who was also a British Crown knight. Countess Elizabeth Sutherland is the current head of this family along with her son Alastair Sutherland. Peter Sutherland was a relative of Thomas Sutherland and former Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Peter Sutherland founded the World Trade Organization and Hong Kong is a member of the WTO. Peter Sutherland was Jesuit educated, a Vatican Knight of St Gregory, British Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George, French Knight of the Legion of Honour, Bilderberg member, and was a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers. Lui Che-woo of Hong Kong is worth about 11 billion and is a Member of the British Empire. Ka-shing Li from Hong Kong is worth about 37 billion and is a Knight of the British Empire. Yang Huiyan is a Chinese billionaire worth about 28 billion and went to Ohio State University.
Hong Kong has economic leverage over the rest of China. Under the British Colony they set up Queens College in Hong Kong which is where Norman Chan was educated. Norman Chan is Executive Director of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and former Regional Vice-Chairman of the London based Standard Chartered Bank. Joseph Yam was the first Executive Director of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and a Knight of the British Empire as well as on the board of directors for UBS. Chris Patten was the last Governor of Hong Kong under Queen Elizabeth II a position that existed until 1997. The position was replaced by the position of Chief Executive of Hong Kong with Tung Chee-hwa as the first head who was educated the University of Liverpool in England. Tung Chee-hwa is worth nearly a billion. Robin Li is a Chinese billionaire worth about 18 billion and he went to the University of Buffalo in New York. Jack Ma who is worth over 40 billion and owns Alibaba which was initially financed by Goldman Sachs with a 3-5 million start up investment before later receiving 20 million from Softbank. The Kwok brothers of Hong Kong are worth tens of billions and were born in Portuguese controlled Macau which was partly established by Jesuits. Raymond Kwok went to Harvard and Cambridge. Pansy Ho is worth about 5 billion and was Jesuit educated at Santa Clara University and also from Jesuit-Portuguese Macau. The Triads are an international crime syndicate mostly based out of Hong Kong and Macau.
India was also part of the British Empire not long ago and has been "westernized" and Romanized. Jagatjit Singh was a Emperor in British India and a Vatican Knight of St. Sylvester and Knight of the British Empire. Jagatjit ruled until his death and then India was reformatted. India is a corporate government transformed out of the East India Company the same way that the United States is basically the continuation of the Virginia Company. The Sassoon family are extremely wealthy bankers known as the "Rothschilds of the East" and set up banks in India and China under the British Crown and their East India Company. Michael Kadoorie is a Jewish billionaire in Hong Kong and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The Kadoorie family worked for the Sassoon family and helped manage their businesses in Mumbai and Hong Kong. The Sassoon family have intermarried with the Rothschild family several times. Albert Sassoon was a British Knight of the Order of the Bath and Knight of the Order of the Star of India. Albert Sassoon set up banks and merchant companies in India and Hong Kong like the David Sassoon & Company which built the Sassoon Docks for trading in Bombay. Baron James Sassoon is the current head of this family. Rahul Bajaj is an Indian billionaire worth over 4 billion and went to Harvard which was established by the British Crown. Sunil Vaswani is an Indian born billionaire that was educated in London and lives in Dubai.
Baron William Mackinnon established the British-India Steam Navigation Company which did business in India and Asia and eventually absorbed into DP World now owned by wealthy businessmen in Dubai like the Sulayem family who also own Dubai World. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates were also established by the British Crown after they set up oil and industrial businesses like the Anglo-Persian Oil Company before propping up Arab nobility to rule which still continue to serve the British Crown's interests through business contracts. Under British rule the Vatican Romanized much of India. There are many Jesuit universities all through out India today. Kalanithi Maran is worth about 5 billion and went to the Jesuit's Loyla College in Chennai, India and was also Jesuit educated at the University of Scranton. Anil Agarwal is an Indian billionaire and his Vedanta Resources is headquartered in London. The British Crown attempted to take over China through by using opium to weaken the people and this caused the Chinese government to ban opium so the British Crown seized Hong Kong. Yusuff Ali M.A. is an Indian billionaire that does business in the UAE. Through the Convention of Peking the British Crown and Russia claimed lands and embassies in China. Joseph Lau of Hong Kong is worth about 15 billion and went to the University of Windsor in Ontario which is a continuation of the Jesuit's Assumption University. The British Crown and London businessmen still have major influences over banks and companies operating in India and China.
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Max partially because the Chinese threatened war when we were about to give Hong Kong home rule
This is the only thing Hong Konger did not realize until now~
From what some people have commented, I think this video needs to explain more - that Hong Kong is already *very well* linked to Mainland China by land without this bridge! It seems many viewers think Hong Kong is an island, but it isn't! (despite there is Hong Kong Island, the majority of Hong Kong is directly bordering China)
This bridge only serves as an extra link, to help Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau's economies (these are 3 cities) better connected. In a Hong Kong - China context, it is much much less relevant, as there are already like 6 border crossing points to Shenzhen (it's another city in China).
The fact is many in Hong Kong have been hoping to build this bridge, for decades. It's proposed by a Hong Kong businessman decades ago and is a dream come true for them. It opens up new trading fronts with cities in western Guangdong province and Macau, and reduces Hong Kong's total resources dependency on Shenzhen - it's only neighbouring city, and increasing a competitor in many fronts (airports, investments, stock exchanges, ports, etc. They are now competing for the leading role in the so called "Greater Bay Area" and this bridges helps Hong Kong a lot.
The people that REALLY don't like this bridge are those in Shenzhen. They are being left behind by this world class project that's just outside of their door.
Go CHINA!
Supporting the motherland from Hongkong.
Snake! The republic of China is ashamed of you! How dare you accept these evil human beings who think controlling others is the way to go in such an aspect they don't tell people what happened in Tianamen 1989 and several other sketchy things they did
@@berl2343 Ok, then?
Britain govt used to throw Hong Kong people in jail without any reason,but Hong Kong still obsesses with the white men hahaha there wasn,t no freedom obviously.
Any supporting facts ?
nsr500 read any history book of hongkong, you will find out.
pngmick is that make you feel bad or what? most european no even see Asian as human at that time
Only the true inferior, driven by insecurity, would make a comment like that. You made yourself look like garbage.
trump daddy
You mean during the riots in the 1960's or during the OC of 2014 or the MK riot of 2016 ?
Do you have any specific period you would like to share & the source of your 'history book' ?
I find it great that they call that area the Bay Area just like the SF Bay Area in the US. This bridge will make it easier to travel and link everyone. Great idea and hope it is a success!
goodbye hongkong
MIDNIGHT lmao
Hong Kong will always be there and it will remain a busy metropolis, it just means it won't be as integral or important in china's future. It will just be a large city with alot of cultural significance but a lesser economic pillar than ever before. Other great Chinese cities of the south will take its place and surpass it many fold, like Shenzhen and Guangzhou are already doing now.
CCP has already destroyed chinese culture, hongkong will also be eroded as well. Taiwan is the last bastion of real chinese culture. Chinese culture or any culture for that matter just doesnt coexist with communism., 3000yrs+ of culture destroyed just like that. You cant be a chinese anymore, you have to be "han chinese".
MIDNIGHT unfortunately that's how the cookie crumbles these days
We didn't welcome you. Why goodbye?
Democracy =/= Freedom
China declares "We touch, you part of us now!"
hevquip hk has officially been part of China since 97 dummy
hevquip 😂😂
But they are also partially independent with freedom that the rest of China does not share. This worries of the people of Hong Kong are in the right place.
Owen Clower It's being overly dramatic to equate a bridge to losing freedom.
Besides China is better off with hk separate and dedicated as a financial buffer to attract investments from abroad which occurs only as long as they are the freest economy in the world.
hevquip I'm not chinese but hey, atleast they know a bit of english, do you know a bit of chinese?
Hong Kong was never independent. It started as a Chinese territory, turned into a British colony, and returned back to China. This whole argument about its independence and democracy only gained ground because China gave it a 50-year preparation for its eventual integration with the mainland. If Hong Kong immediately became part of China after British lease ended, the loss would be companies leaving, but this verbal war would never happen.
they are so mean. i dont undertand why Hongkong mad to China ? actually now you can buy a house in China without any requirement , because you are China people too . Hongkong people should considered for the Population in the future that maybe you cant have a space for living anymore
Can it support Tanks?.
forever0042000
Always useful to have a motorway.
what for? PLA has troops on the island already.
Yes, but you wouldn't want to. Tank tracks do terrible things to even the best pavement.
I think by road trade is more economical n easy compared to by sea
Hildugard it does not support democracy
#Respect for China. 👏
everybody in hong kong love this bridge
British salty af. lmao
where?
Griever chinese troll
Cameron Bell the journalist. People usually are in awe of new and record breaking infrastructure and are congratulatory. If that journalist see shanghai Tower that is bigger than majority of Western skyscrapers, he would be critical and salty instead of admitting that it's a magnificent structure.
Britons are salty now, but more close to home.
You do realise Britain handed back Hong Kong because Britain took it off China for 100 years in the first place right? Hong Kong is what it is today because of Britain you mong 😂
amazing engineering feat. 👍
There are so many talents in the comment area
Congratulations!🎉🎈🍾🎊
Hong Kong is just doing fine. It is China that is blackmailing HK
你知道中国实施了多少惠港政策吗
TAO LI ਭੋਸਾਡੀ ਕੇ ਮਾ ਚੁਧ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ ਨਾ ਤੇਰੀ
Yeah, you’re so rich that the 2nd largest economic country need to blackmail your city to make money.
*How did they handle the Earth's curvature? I'll bet that they didn't.*
Exactly, because there is no curvature
western media : this bridge is not democracy,
LOL
1 Billion people with no dissenting opinions, truly troubling.
All the business people and economists are saying this is good for the economy while a few teens think it's a bad choice. Who to side with?
No one plugs chips into circuit boards anymore .. it's all SMD baby
Mainland China should implement the same economic system of Hong Kong. Free markets.
guangdong is hyper developed now
in total they can actually have a 6 lane highway to roll in all they want into Hong Kong
Hong Kong should be its own independent city. If not that it should still be ruled by the British. Most people in Hong Kong speak English.
Don't do propaganda for China ...
The only way I would Drive on this bridge Is With me Wearing a Life jacket! And windows rolled down so i can easily Get out the Car If the Worst was to happen. Lol no joke
China and Dubai have the most amazing engineering projects today!!
America has zero because of investing they invade
Hong kong should brexit China!
gogosegaga naive
too young too simple
We would love to , but we cant due to the restrictive control by xi's government
thats just stupid
Great China
theres a bridge already? now we dont have to take a ferry next time im there
It's painful to see Hong Kong losing its unique identity and freedom. It seems like we've always either been manipulated by the PRC or the British gov. It's gotten to the point where one could suggest there is an identity crisis. No sense of self and belonging but just pain. In addition, there are some many underlying layers of conflict to be resolved.
Let's be honest, those bridges are just arteries for the Chinese war machine, to where the second Hong Kong rebels, tanks and armored vehicles come pouring into the city.
Blame HK's petulant children for this expedited effort to integrate this region back to the motherland.
It is actually hilarious seeing how much hate this bridge is getting xDDDDD
Wow! As I have said before, the Dragon is ascending - watch out!
Its really amusing to see a lot of Chinese comments saying how their country is so better by breaking the rules of their own country. What a pity!
Trump wants 20 B to build the wall and these guys spent 20B to build a bridge on the sea, god going
You mean China didn’t listen to US advice of negative impact of bridge on this, that, there, their, those, them,...etc? China prospered because it understand themselves through their own eyes & not understand themselves through the West’s eyes, as happened in India, Latin America & Africa.
China taking a page from USA's book: "Oh, hi there! How ya doin' Hong Kong? Anytime you need some "chinese democracy" we're here to lend ya a hand, or ya know ... couple more". Europe is looking forward to China's "Silk Road", too, and ya know, the future "trade". Sure will be "hot trading". The future looks "bright"... Maybe a bit too bright, might need some shade... anyone have big rocks to hide under? Ah wait.. I heard Switzerland has rocks they call mountains. Ahhh... the Swiss Alpes.
The Chinese knack of turning something amazing in to something crappy.
Think turd floating in a beautiful swimming pool.
What do you mean gap? There is no gap between mainland and HK. They are bordered on Shenzhen since millions of years ago. With out this bridge, you can still go to HK by car, train, bicycle or what ever the hell you want. This bridge is to link HK with Zhuhai and Macau. It decreases the traffic cost. I can't see anything that is bad for normal people and enterprise and I don't understand why you dislike it so much.
ehhh...don't forget: here is China:)
USA paying for this, Trump needs to hit them with more tariffs.
China Is the best
Solution simple look at U.S consensus of how the separate the world and follow it as that how the USA view It. It could be fought in law.
The bottom is South Asia above is Russia left is Europe. All South Asia are called “Asian”. this is condenses servey. The country are China, India , Taiwan , Thailand ,Malaysia , Indonesia ,Philippines these are described as Asian.
Now go and look of trade on south Asian country’s.you find China is the top trader and all of these county are hundred of billion trade with China. So you are all related . China goes up you go too, China goes down, you will go down too. So wake up. Media playing division for a reason.
Cannot wait for discovery channel or national geographic channel making a documentary of this :P
and so it begins
I feel bad for Hong Kong people. In the future they have to deal with billions of Chinese tourist in daily basis.
It would be myriad better for bridging between Macau and Hong Kong
Watch out, the US may “accidentally” bomb the bridges.
Lol try commuting on long bridges. I live in New Orleans and drive the causeway alot it's 26 miles over water .For a long time it was the longest bridge.
Now, they can send their tanks faster.
Most pointless bridge. Why use it when the current route to Macau (by boat) is flawless already.
but how, hong kong is driving on the left side and china is on the right side how could they built it?
You see we here in America have the potential to do things this great but instead we blow our money on welfare
democracy was not some freedom left for hong kong, only something intentionally left by British to make communist party to have headache, WEll, smart move.
Is it just me? Or is it that chinese, japanese and korean people are very very clever.
Syed Ahmed : clever in certain ways not in some important ways. I would say. Imho. But clever neverheless.
Did they really use an Xbox Kinect for that robot at 2:00 ?
Why no mention about the huge over budget paid by HK taxpayer, serious quality problems and many workers already died from poor construction site safety of the project. By the way, the person who in charge the mainland Co. which responsible for building the project is arrested in the name of occupation in mainland.
Still not open. Sadly being currently mothballed by the HK legco.
The PRC and Macau also have big stakes in it - very unfair to hinder its opening.
Everybody in Hong Kong hate the bridge
yes
Citation needed!
THE COOL GUY HERE So don't come, as simple as that.
so just simply try to blow it up
on99 why?
Its an easy access for conquest
China's all megastructure are mind blowing salute to the Chinese people very soon they will be the super power surpass the America
False narrative. HK right from inception has made a living out of its location, connecting a closed China to the world. Nothing new about it. As China opens up and inrernationalises, HK's relative decline is inevitable.
This is like Donald Trump , build something crazy with someone else's money , the only thing different is that CHina actually did that.
next is Taiwan and Philippines.
And here the U.S. is having problems getting that damn wall put up.
Who will still go to Macao by boat?
Eye like "I popping".
I am confused about Hong Kong. Does it has own government or it is run by Chinese government?
It has its own.
Hahahahaha that subtitles 0:37
Some people have set an unfillable gap in their mind.
why does china look like a future topia
think abt what British did before they handed hk back to China..
and Americans want them out! why?
It is so unbelievably stupid how so many places around the world call their region the BAY AREA.... Like holy hell, everytime someone says bay area here in america they're always talking about los angeles, even though there are like 400 other freaking towns and regions in america that call themselves the "BAY AREA". How hard is it to put the name of a freaking city in front of those words so the rest of the world knows what the hell you're talking about???
or is it san francisco they're always talking about?? I don't know, probably both
in 1.05 when will the England / UK build a highway/ Sub -tunnel connect to iceland (icelandic) in North-west or East-West direct connect to sweden (svenska )?
Love FT. But too few videos. Please make moreeeee
Am I the only one who recognized the background music
whats the name please !!
Hong Kong will be a successful city for the Chinese but a lot of intellectual minds will leave through their politics and economic view.
In case the people of Hong Kong try to secede, tanks will be rolling over that bridge.
Do u guys know how much this bridge which most Hong Kong people are unwilling to build costs Hong Kong government?
They Made It Great Chinese
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20 billion to build!! that's....actually cheap~
This comment section is full of the 50 Cent Army...
Hate and hatters can' block a dream. Keep going China
People nowadays: Free Hong Kong! Free Tibet! Free Taiwan! Free Pineapple! Free Macau! Free Uyghur! Free Hawaii! Free Coconut! Free Puerto Rico! Free Quebec! Free Catalonia! Free Bavaria! Free Beer! Free Sevastopol! Free Kosovo! Free Kurdistan! Free Palestine! Free Western Sahara!