Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Slow, Quiet Death of Hong Kong" video.

  1. That's why private interests should not drive public policy. Voters should be extra wary of businessmen trying to enter politics, because a government's bottom line is not profit but continuity.
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  2. ​ NatCo-Supremacist The democratized Republic of China perhaps, particularly since Mainlanders often return from a visit to Taiwan thinking there is the "China" that China should have become. Meanwhile the heavy-handedness of the "socialist" PRC invites insurrection that would last for generations, which is especially damaging considering the ever shrinking pool of only sons of military and family-raising age.
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  3. ​ @edwardkuenzi5751 CA though still has robust agriculture, defense, technology development, and media production industries, whose centrality isn't nearly as threatened as HK's economy largely based on the movement of goods and money which Singapore and Shanghai also compete on.
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  4. I heard the hope was that Mainland China would steer their path towards HK and the West, instead of smothering out democracy and rule of law in favor of Party autocracy. Remember that the HK transfer negotiations were done during the optimistic PRC's post-Mao opening up period, and were largely concluded well before 1989.
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  5. ​ @flyerton99 Having recently moved out of Beijing, I can tell you that these overseas content creators are much closer to the truth than what Party media tells us. Living in Mainland China taught me that the more pessimistic reports about the PRC are generally more realistic too.
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  6. Boston would be seen like any other community, a city with its own unique culture competing for attention and taxpaying residents. Whether Bostonians would wish to continue Qing policies, converge with the rest of the US, or try to pitch the superiority of their colonial practices is all up to them.
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  7. That's because the situation is very pessimistic when colonial rule is popularly seen as preferable to the current native one.
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  8. ​Singapore is now becoming that value-added middleman between China and the West, for those who wish to continue engaging with China instead of reinvesting towards a "multipolar" market.
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  9. British rule made HK and by extension Shēnzhèn into what they became today, instead of outlying military bases and inconvenient bedroom communities serving Guǎngzhōu up the river.
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  10. Right, under Beijing HK's unique selling point deteriorated into merely administering USD-pegged HK Dollars, basically as a way for PRC entities to salvage the value of their Renminbi.
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  11. Mainland China was similarly much more vibrant until the XJP administration sterilized the whole place.
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  12. HKers aren't standing with HK anymore, that Hong Kong was killed and the survivors are trying to migrate elsewhere before they suffer even more Mainland maladies.
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  13. Had the UK continued to recognize the ROC as "China" at the time of transfer, that may have been possible.
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