Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Can China DESTROY the Hong Kong Financial Centre? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

Interested to hear how Macao is supposed to take the reins from HK, since it's notorious as a gateway for Chinese money to escape the Mainland and doesn't have a whole lot of space to go for much else 🇲🇴🎰💸
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@ipg6772 Singapore is a democracy, and what the PRC thinks it itself is on a much bigger scale. However they conveniently forget that: 1) S'pore relies on positive relations with its neighbors, including well-defined boundaries; 2) The SAF isn't an existential threat to its neighbors; 3) Government corruption is a huge deal and the fastest way to fall from grace, whereas in China it's really the only way to rise in the Party ranks; 4) It openly embraces and promotes ethnic diversity, instead of trying to Sinicize the place; and 5) The ruling PAP has been waning in popular support as its citizens gradually want more than sterile prosperity 🇸🇬🗳
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Correction: Republicans, through their policy of isolationism and disengagement.
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HK was a safe Western portal into China, and I doubt Shànghǎi will attract foreign currency to the same extent. If anything, China is losing a major way of attracting overseas investments by closing down the HK gateway.
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China got confident that Shànghǎi can have all the benefits of HK without it being a safe harbor for Western thoughts and values. But I doubt a more legally whimsical Shànghǎi will attract as much foreign investment, and this leaves China more brittle by relying even more on the façade of internal economic prosperity.
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In both cases, it's subversion of injustice.
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@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 Because they're part of the horde of Mainland imports, or the minority of rich HKers whose wealth depends on the whims of Běijīng?
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Probably waited until the UK lost its voice in the EU
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"Highly specific" subject to very loose interpretation by the Party, as with all of their other laws.
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