How China crushed Hong Kong
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
- In 1997 China promised to protect Hong Kong's freedoms for the next five decades-but just 25 years after the handover, Hong Kong is now a police state. So how did China crush Hong Kong?
00:00 - How China crushed Hong Kong
00:44 - Tiananmen square massacre vigil banned
02:37 - China’s ambition since 1842: reclaim Hong Kong
04:16 - How China needed Hong Kong’s booming business
05:30 - President Xi’s aim to crush Hong Kong
07:30 - How China infiltrated Hong Kong society
08:51 - The tactics of the Chinese Communist Party
11:42 - How exiled Hong Kongers are speaking out
13:00 - What can the world learn from Hong Kong?
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If sharp criticism disappears entirely, mild criticism will become harsh. If mild criticism is also not allowed, silence will be considered ulterior motives. If silence is no longer allowed, it would be a crime to praise not enough effort. If only one voice is allowed to exist, then the only voice that exists is a lie.
Voice of Indian PM now
Sharp or strong criticism is always welcome, as long as it's the truth!! The problem is if those criticism are based on lies and BS!! So?? Do you think it's ok to use lies and BS to criticize??? Hahaha... hahaha.... what a shame!!
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@@drumpfdon760 are you having a seizure?
@@krac3x438 ?????
I think Portugal handled this case very well by just giving full citizenship of Portugal.
A citizen of first world to a third world country.....99 % don't speak Portuguese !
Portugal is such a poor country to begin with. But I guess it's still better than mainland Chyna though.
The british did the same. Many sent their children.
Your brain is poor @@jamisonz3365
Went to Macau a few years back, barely heard cantonese in the street.
2:56 I’m sorry but that journalist’s name just cracks me up
我只能说希望香港人自己毁了香港😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, too stereotypical
Chein Choong from Hong Kong. Nothing stereotypical about his name
@@rayw4589 Looolll
😂 lol fufu
If there is a method to do so, it would be pertinent to attempt to remove the age restriction so this can be used as study material for schools.
oh i love how you put method on your background music 😁
Are you in China Mainland? People deceived by CCP are pretty much like this.😂
What's the music at minute 4?
There is a strong economic element to this situation. The wealthiest families in HK and the wealthy Hongs (large HK business conglomerates like HK Land, Jardines, etc) have supported China and magnified their wealth. They are people and institutions that don’t have a sense of fairness, only an ambition for more wealth and power. In a way that’s Confucian because they are doing it for their families and future generations. So there is a very stark distribution of wealth issue with virtually ZERO upward mobility for the have-nots. That sets the tone for the political unrest. I love HK. I love the people. I lived there for 15 years in total, on and off between 1986 to 2010. I hope for a middle road that will keep peace and balance out the situation.
Not Confucian at all. Confucianism always look down on merchants of all forms
There is no middle road, the constitutional settlement of Hong Kong is causing a great deal of crisis because it is inauthentic.
Interesting, do you think there is no gap between the rich and poor in western countries let’s say the Great United KINGDOM? 😅😅😅
[[Slaves shall serve]]. Protesting has never done anything to stop strong parties. Protesting is a game for slaves to feel like they are doing something, apart of something bigger than themselves. False hope that is snuffed out by any strong party. Slaves shall serve and this will always be the way until the sun freezes and the moon catches ablaze.
So capitalists are bad?
This should not surprise anyone. Most of the elite business class in hong kong already left Hong kong back in the late 1990s after the transition. They all mostly left to get citizenships from other English speaking nations in the pacific. Most now simply travel to hong kong for their business needs while maintaining their families and assets overseas. Meaning they have no skin in the game when it came to Hong kong sovereignty, so selling the place out to the mainlanders so they can improve their connection was simply a business transaction. Such a state of affairs was a mortal blow to Hong kong. If you want to experience what hong kong was like you now need to travel to Singapore.
Yet truth be told, isn't fully reunifying Hong Kong into the mainland is the poison pill curse, that's already accelerating China's rapid decline--even mass secessionist collapse, given how Hong Kong has always been the mainland's ONLY legitimate avenue for accepting foreign direct investment, i.e., the ONLY real reason why China became the 2nd largest economy in the world--NOT primarily because of indigenously Chinese hard work?
The wealthy people that left were wise. It was always obvious to anyone that was awake that Hong Kong had no future where it wouldn't be totally controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was always the most obvious outcome in the universe. The agreement was already signed and sealed, and it was just a matter of when. Fighting that trajectory was always futile and useless.
Hongkongers who weren't destitute or very poor that didn't leave have themselves or their parents to blame. Leaving was the wise thing to do, and there was two whole decades to do it.
Fighting to maintain the sovereignty of Taiwan, on the other hand, is very reasonable, as the CCP has never had any legitimate claim on Taiwan.
@@fupopanda And maybe that's why in China--as it is in Hong Kong, it can be argued the working underclass are the real bad guys here, i.e., those that can't hack it on their own initiative, will use 'patriotism' as an excuse for not making not only meaningful change in their own lives, but also making sure everybody else is as miserable of a failure as they are.
First, the British take Hong Kong from China and occupy it for a century. During the long occupation, the British denied Hong Kong residents the right to self-determination. Britain appoints colonial governors without even asking Hong Kong residents.…… now that Hong Kong reunited with its motherland British suddenly care about democracy and human rights. Oh please 🙄
Economist=fasclst neoliberal media
Nobody's more hypocritic than the British.
HK folks will improve any developed society. Except maybe Singapore
China taking over of Hong Kong makes sense and nobody would have a problem with it if the Chinese government didn’t suppress human rights and introduce communism. Hong Kongers are happy with the way they are living and don’t want to move away from capitalism
@@rihitjamb3757 imagine choosing imperialism over communism. People in Hong Kong are no longer second citizens after returning to China
I'm sorry to point this out. I've been to Hong Kong eight times. It's one of my favorite cities at least before the Communist party took over, but Ching Cheong is an unfortunate name for a Chinese activist.
你是dog🐶 可怜的垃圾
I'm sorry to point this out, don't like it, stay away. No nobody forced Neanderthal.
And you shut up scum@@darth.severu5
Sorry, but I don’t understand? What is so unfortunate about the name Ching Cheong?
@@ClaudiaC-du5xroh, Ching Cheong also sounds almost the same as ching chong with a soft tonal change on the e
We must not allow China to do to Taiwan what it did to Hong Kong.
What was the name of the renowned journalist name again? I forgot.🤔
I’ve been searching for this footage for couple of weeks, thanks Economist.
Do you know any Hong Kong vlogger?
Thank you for the videos
What is the score at 8:20
I hope the editors of Economist can also do a series on how Western powers supported the war in Middle East and crushed millions of people there …..
Fair point. I give you a thumb-up. But it doesn’t make Chinese government any less guilty.
@@youngjin8300 guilty for what? For making Chinese people's living conditions better and better?
@@youngjin8300 at least we can agree on every superpower is equally evil
@@jshenqxu no, for shooting its own civilians when they asked for greater control over their government
@@jshenqxu Pretty much every countries living conditions get better and better as GDP grows. But China is making the living conditions much worse for the people of Hong Kong. The country has gone downhill for the past 25 years.
I can't thank you enough for telling the story only true Hongkongers know but very difficult to explain to other people in the world. Thank you very much!
All lies. That's why you find it hard to explain. Even these video is all lies.
@@saikauleung1198 you must be someone who support ccp or to seek controversy 😑
As a true Hong konger, i should agree that this is respect.
@@JessiIsHere It doesn't matter what they think. Doesn't matter what you think. Its Chinese land.
@@A1Kira yeah, and that’s sad
3:07 never thought the C-word was really a name.
Tnk u Interesting 👍👍
China is fully controlling Hong Kong not will control Hong Kong but every realistic person saw that coming.
Although HK is hopeless, I still appreciate that you make this video.
Never loose hope
There is tremendous hope for Hong Kong to be rejuvenated by interagration with the greater bay area project. This will make Hong Kong a central part of what will be the strongest economic hub in the world.
@@Arangggg : ¡ Yes !
@@Arangggg imagine being this delusional
It is just hopeless in your eyes, not hopeless in Chinese's eyes.
they forget that what is happening in Hong Kong could happen to Taiwan next but there are different factors
This background music is really noisy other than that great work 👍🏻
Thank you for making this video. I enjoyed seeing the familiar faces with whom I am familiar.
2:55 This rhymes well
😂😂
I've returned to HK in Feb 2019 after living in UK since 1969. It pained me to see so much destruction and inconsideration by the rioters. The national security law eventually calmed down the riots and finally return HK to function normally. That is quite a different narrative from the Anglo Saxon countries. UK took the opportunity to grab our top earners like doctors, leaving us far more exposed to short staffing in government hospitals. Hong Kongers are definitely not grateful for that! Still, we have a far better health service than the UK NHS! Top life expectancy in the world.
Whatever you have done to Hong Kong failed us who are still living there. I think you should also have the courage to think deeper on what went wrong!
I am born and raised in Hong Kong, I was a RHKP officer briefly up until the take over. In 2019 I took part in the protests most days for 7 months up until the end of November 2019 when I had no choice but to leave Hong Kong and I haven't been able to go back ever since.. Prior to the take over you could feel things were changing and we were warned that the police will be flooded with mainlanders and pro-CCP officers. I never imagined things would get as bad as it has in such a short time. It was heartbreaking to see what had come of the once world respected HKPF, they were now a lawless pack of thugs very similar to Mao's Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. The whole experience during the protests left me traumatized, I couldn't sleep for months and I've only just been able to watch footage of the protests. I dream of the day all exiled Hong Kongers can return home and meet again.
I am sorry to hear that my friend, sincerely many of us in the West even't realised this has happened. I found out today through a podcast! I come from Russia and Cuba, and those countries are both infected by Communism, I feel you and understand you more than noone!
Stay strong, the freedom will come one day.
@@AleWestQ nothing is impossible, plan for next 30-40 years like your leader did.
别抹黑了 一只蟑螂屎 你们是白皮肤的狗而已 可怜的蟑螂屎
Honestly I would want some Hong kongers to instead stay in Switzerland.
At least you will get better public transport and food without seed oils
You’re a loser. No loss for HK. Only cowards run away
Great reporting, just curious if you are aware of Miles Kwok / Gui Wengui. Is he actually helping hong kong or a con man?
He launched a cryptocurrency where you can only put your money in but can't get it out
@@kevindst That definitely sounds like a scam. I don't know him well but I have met people who talks about him non-stop, and have invested in his causes.
HE IS A CON MAN! SPIT CRAZY THINGS TO GAIN ATTENTION
Outstanding work as always
only if it dares to add a bit of truth about the nature of rioting.
@@qijia4769 HK has the most expensive housing, and claimed to be most tiring city.
Most HKers got no time to cause chaos, if there were no police brutality & hk govt didn’t enforce a ridiculous law, favored by the dictator above.
@@RexKo tell this to the locals who were brutally attacked by the rioters. lies will not stick. it is not just for the lies from communists, but also from the enemy of communists.
@@qijia4769 Those few who got triggered by pro-CCP individuals, then pulling out revenges, all got sent to jail.
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As opposed to pro-CCP groups & armed cops, who breached the law against protesters,
more than 95% of them got away from legal consequences.
@@RexKo when you claim to be only anti ccp meanwhile physically attacking everyone who doesn't agree with you, then you are no longer anti-ccp but anti humanity and falls into the definition of terrorism. you can find problems within policemen group all around the world. but it doesn't mean police and terrorists are the same. these are not rocket science but common sense.
China:now we can take after hundred years
What is the name of dr chungs podcast? I can’t find it. Great video! Thanks for covering! This is sooooooo sad!
Thank you for a fair reporting of the of what, how and why of the current situation of Hong Kong. It used to be that history were written by the victor. Now that with internet, at least there would be documentation and reporting of the events from all sides for the future generation to see and to judge for themselves.
History was NEVER written by the victor, only those who write it down
2:37 Other things aside, would you just listen to this commentary glorifying "The UK invaded China and colonized Hong Kong". And now "China's ambition to take full control of Hong Kong goes back many years". No kidding I'm so confused...
Yes doesn’t make sense. It’s obvious that hk will return if it was taken by force.
Sometimes places can be free, you know.
@@quyenluong3705 it didn't have to be returned by force
@@user-qo4kb4dr1i no one will give you for free esp if it wasn’t yours to begin with
Full love and respect for hong Kong people..
while everyone was busy with the Russian invasion in Ukraine. people forgot Hong Kong and now China has done their invasion of Hong Kong with little to no outrage in the western countries
Hong Kong is part of China. No invasion occurred. China did renegade on its agreement to allow HK autonomy for 50yrs.
History repeats on & on
Korea get played by Japan and China over and over again
@@derekwampum8861 :(
korean 😂😂😂
@@nitaseely6830 ???
@@nitaseely6830 ?ㅇㅉㄹㄱ
Thank you for the video
I’ve been living in hk my whole life, but during the pandemic, things changed for the worse, there were protests, violence, the polyU incident, and the yeun long attack, the economy, the free society that we were promised to see wasn’t there anymore, it was for the first 20 years but not anymore, china has changed for the worse
2:55 AYO THATS A NICE HONDA s2000!!
Thank you for telling the story of Hong Kong.
西方的媒体在误导你的思想！没看出来吗？！
Thank you for the story, informative and professional. :)
This content is just visible enough not to be affected by Chinese bots. Any such content on less major channels and, especially Insta or FB, is dominated by state sponsored activity.
Thank you for creating such informative work that explains the root of the malaise in Hong Kong.
我地出便啲人睇到你地辛苦，都心知肚明， really take care and I wish Hong Kongers all the best. We stand with you.
@Tong zijyun 有港独天天上街游行展示暴力。
Beijing’s grip on Hong Kong is not tighter than Washington’s grip on the Korean Republic and Japan. After all, the foreign judges in HK have not been kicked out of HK. But Washington controls the prosecutorial systems of Korea and Japan and uses them to topple anti-US administrations.
Call it only "malaise" ....
2:56 there’s no way that’s his name 💀
They can at least pronounce it properly
Today, in a place where lively political debate used to be the norm, people have become wary of crossing an invisible line laid down by the national security law, or NSL. Still, the sentiment towards Beijing is far from uniform in divided Hong Kong. The liberal and the young look on aghast as children’s publishers are jailed for sedition and musicians are arrested for playing protest songs
Protest songs… that sound right to be arrested.
Seriously 😂 do you have any evidence to support what you said, and what is the source of these so called data?
The Brits didn’t have a great hand when they were negotiating with the Chinese and made a few faulty assumptions, including in regards to the relationship between growing capitalism and growing democracy. At the time, PRC wasn’t a member of the WTO. Years later, though, they joined. Chris Patten found himself in the interesting position of negotiating on behalf of the EU in those talks.
And with the rise of Shanghai and Shenzhen and Guangzhou, Beijing has felt comfortable meddling in increasingly brazen ways.
Total BS
Was the journalist really called "Ching Chong"? Sounds like a prank to me.
Excellent!
I could feel ❤
Phenomenal report. Thank you
Praying for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong.
pray for the victims of mass shootings in the United States every day.
@Nguyễn Khoa Nam If that were true, why are so many people fleeing HK to the UK seeking freedom?
@Nguyễn Khoa Nam nice joke
希望你们的国家能比香港更加自由。 香港人可以堵塞破坏交通和银行，可以殴打杀害路人，可以袭击警察。 你们国家还需要更加努力才能追赶香港的自由。
@@bristoled93 LOL because those cowards were part of the riot.
The heading should be: how China crushed Western influences in Hong Kong🤣
That's why Tokyo gets more popular and we never heard HongKong since.
Not unless you're Peter Zeihan, making bold statements of how Hong Kong's longer term prospects are better than the mainland Beijing's--given what he said could happen by 2030--and it's not like The Hill's Saager & Krystal have noticed on 3 separate occasions on how still plausibly right he is.
20 years old, when i was born as the third kid in my family. My family was fined 10k RMB, the sad fact is that my family only make 3k RMB per year at the same time.
You were a mistake… your family shouldn’t have had you. You costed your parents so much money 💀
I thought they increased the limit to 3 kids
One family one kid by law a d policy even Xi and many CCP high levels , but your family has three. What's wrong about the fine?
Singapore had stop at two kids restrictions or you are fined and faced many restrictions.
really feel sorry for HK，though can not do anything that may help.
The Americans will be the judge of that to stop China
*Every year we are nearing a war like what happened in fallout franchise*
Every year since, Hong Kong continues to grow. Every year since, this video gets more and more hilariously wrong. 😂
Respect to the journalists.
Totally biased news by unqualifed journalist.
You mean the NED funded propagandists
20 years ago, ' How China Collapse '
now, ' How China Collapse '
Well someone also keep saying How US collapse
Excellent
I'm depressed with this. As I don't see much publicity by many mainstream news outlets at present about what's happening in HongKong though their peace-loving people. It's so sickening for me to see this West-leaning Asian country neighboring to our less democratic society in a situation like that. I'm numbed to a large degree but being reminded about seeing peace-loving image of typical HongKong civilians being subjected to anti-protest acts that's definitely traceable to that CCP gang would almost make tears well up in my eyes. I see in this HongKong's collective lived experience of educational value.
I’m from Hong Kong and I’m glad to hear that you guys care for us so much ❤❤❤
Hey, I'm from Guatemala and I'm really interested in Hong Kong, how are things going right now?? Any recent news or updates??
@@salvadorpericullo7 Not much has changed but we still need to put on masks we have an app that is basically tracking everywhere we go
As a British I respect your people
Thanks you ❤️
@@McScaramoche wow, that's worrying. Have there been any protests recently?? Because sadly I haven't heard anything on the media
The Economics again. You don't need to be listened to, because whatever you say, it is all negative about China.
Because China is all negative and fake 😂
yesssss i don't get it bruhhhhhh
-9999 social credits
Hong Kong to me always seemed so colourful and flourishing economically and culturally
Thanks for covering this. Hongkonger forever!
如果从一个殖民地的角度，这将是一个完全不同的叙述。
历史的确是胜利者书写的，但是，在其没有固定为历史之前，历史只是一个任人打扮的小姑娘。
香港的故事在世界上各个曾经的殖民地反复发生，绝大多数都是差不多的流程和结局。唯一不同的背景，是接手这个前英国殖民地的是一个强大的工业国，于是这个老调的故事终于有了不一样的结局。
中共从来不承认香港是一个殖民地。
a very fair description of what it is.
Chinese subtitles please. All Taiwanese should watch this!
China No.1💪
No.1 in Covid 🇨🇳💉
Watch this English video clip as an objective assessment of what happened then. There are 4 clips altogether
Let it be that every Chinese have exercise thier freedom and freewill And live harmony with. The power of democracy
thanks
Wish the peoples of Northern Ireland and Scotland all the best in its fight against the oppression and for freedom and independence!
Those peoples live in a free country where their rights to vote and express themselves are not hampered with, and most of them support the union. No comparison whatsoever
??
Oppression? Please, they're hardly unlike Hong Kong or China 🤦
IMHO, Scotland is the bully most of the time that blackmails the UK government from time to time with so-called "Scottish independence" lol
Another CCP bot🥳
Didn't Dr. Zhong escape to the UK for his own benefit?
why he has to be a perfect victim?
@@husbandfishable if you knew what foreign countries did to China, you may ask yourself why China has to be a perfect victim
I think the British never crushed Hong Kong. Hong Kong people had great democracy under British rule.
But what the point? In 2047 it will fully be under the mainland they had no rush to take it back they just wanted to make it easier for people to accept the fact of reality. That they need to accept and adapt to
very simple,human hate the truth because it hurts.
Thank you for reporting China tyrannical suppression on Hong Kong to English speaking viewer.
Nothing tyrannical whatsoever, Hong Kong is better than ever and hopefully the US and UK take in all the treasonous dregs of society, bit like the Cuban boat lift of the 80's. China would do well to make note of all the BNO now useless idiots, and rescind their citizenship.
do you know what the UK did to China??
@@taikonautaparawara : *Yes*---Hong Kong just like other territories that fell under the iron fist of the British Empire faced fierce oppression and lack of individual/civilian rights. Same goes for India under British rule.
Beijing’s grip on Hong Kong is not tighter than Washington’s grip on the Korean Republic and Japan. After all, the foreign judges in HK have not been kicked out of HK. But Washington controls the prosecutorial systems of Korea and Japan and uses them to topple anti-US administrations.
@@taikonautaparawarayea UK was trying to save those who want live in freedom. unlike evil CCP
Free Northern Ireland, Free Malvinas, Free Gibraltar, Free Scotland...
滚去你英格兰宗主的岛上搞运动去
Don't like to admit it Hong Kong, but a little reminder to those that had the protection of the U.K. You sealed your own fate the minute you signed for independence.
“ Mr Xi …… eat shi$.”🎯💯
Great vid. I strongly recommend that you do a documentary on "How Britain brutally crushed the IRA fight for Independence"
Hong Kong RIP!
Now do one with Taiwan
I have not heard about any of this happening in Macau. Does China's government see Macau as less important?
@they lupu Macau stopped being Portuguese in 1999, two years after Hong Kong stopped being British.
How Chinese central government crushed Hong Kong separator
You’re the sepearator,
No one ever say there were separators before 2019.
The CCP propaganda made it up.
@@RexKo but 20 years ago, Things are different. There were some local separate movements between 2009-2012 change people's mind. I am not sure the exactly date and events. But after that, you can feel the different.
Democracy for Hong Kong is one thing but there is also a geopolitical angle to this. British did not give Hong Kongers democracy. They ask the Hong Kongers to get it from the communists. I will be very careful when someone who didn't give me the freedom I deserve and ask me to fight with others for it.
@Event Horizon, it is the CCP who stopped the UK government to give HKgers democracy before 1997.
Communists kept on stopping the Br to give HKers democracy from behind.
Ironically…Mark Young helped design such a democratic model soon after the war, but 🇨🇳 threatened to march in if it were implemented, as that would likely give power to their staunchest opponents.
@@lrt_unimog8316 That's rich
China just put national security law n settle everything 😂😂😂😂
When it’s so bad that the country wants to be back to Britain
Obiv britain wasn’t bad to Hong Kong. They fought japan. Black December……
so sad
Thank you to Britain for giving Hong Kong the freedom and democratic right to choose their Governor and their local MP..........wait my bad. That never happened.
They did-and Peking made threats of invasion if these designs were implemented. Thus were we stuck at 訓政, excellent though it was.
@@lrt_unimog8316 evidence please
@@pctong5387 I’ve somewhere else to go, but hopefully you’ll find everything at Kew.
@@pctong5387 The declassified documents of the UK government show that, as far back as the 1950s, Britain floated democratic reforms in Hong Kong only to be firmly rebuffed by the People's Republic of China.
@@lrt_unimog8316 Stop hiding 🤡🤡
In my view Hong kong crushed hong kong themself
how
This is the view from Western Media. Period
The measures taken to control the spread of Covid 19 helped to subdue Hong Kong. The resistance was crushed with the onset of the pandemic.
I had 7 very closed friends in hong kong in elementry school. 4 of them moved to london and 2 moved to canada because of this
Yes, but I bet they still holiday in Hong Kong.
Wow - it's the 4th of June today. What are the odds?
in 3：20，you say that Mao had unleash violent and destructive policies in 1950，but China grow sharply in this period，the real policy disaster is culture revolution from 1966-1976，which I thought you may want to talk about（without malice，I grow up in China and knew it from my elders）