We never get a satisfying end to these things; The same people who lied about Iraq and Libya still have jobs in the respectable media.
They’ll never acknowledge that western-backed riots opposing the extradition of a murderer might have been somewhat misguided, instead we get “actually Xi Jinping successfully crushed their hopes and dreams by building inexpensive mass transit”.
Damn communists improving their people’s lives to earn their support
How evil and authoritarian
Travel to the mainland has been made more compelling by new infrastructure that cut travel times in half between the cities, a booming array of entertainment choices and low prices
But he added the integration could raise questions about the city’s identity
B-but what about… checks notes… Hong Kong’s unique identity of overpriced goods and services 😢
They really did the fucking “but at what cost” meme
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didn’t read the article. did you?
Evil authoritarian […checks notes…] democracy! Stick it to the will of the people, fellow kids!
Bro did not read the article
Bro didn’t even finish the headline.
The Shenzhen frenzy dovetails with Hong Kong residents’ growing willingness to work and live in mainland China. A survey of people under 40 in the city by the Hong Kong-Guangdong Youth Association conducted last year found 66% of them are now open to employment across the border, tripling from 22% in 2020.
China genocided HKs culture so that more ppl stop realizing how bad cummunism is
It really is a Brave New World, isn’t it?
This is something I didn’t expect, but I should have seen coming. When people left Hong Kong for Britain, I guess it should have been expected that the general opinion on the government would shift. It’s a shame.
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If the remaining people
According to the article around 180000 left which is around 2.5% of the population of Hong Kong 7.2 million. There basically wasn’t that many people who emigrated to cause a shift in perception.
As many have suspected it was the issue of cost of living that caused the protest. Now with easy access to more affordable goods & services across the border, the problem mostly fixed itself. If you relied on outside media narratives convincing you otherwise, you would come to the wrong conclusion.
To quote Steve Jobs
People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
