Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Hong Kong Is Finished: No Longer a Financial Hub | How a City Goes from Global Fame to Global Shame?" video.

@RodrigoPalma700 : Because in HK... the "indigenous" people there.. were actually some of the old elites, that belongs to some of the older dynasties. And they are actually chinese people. Not mixed race. Not from colonial days. Some had been actual part of the imperial emperor's remits. This is the difference. The problem with Singaporeans and with some Malaysians is that, they assume that, these people should have no rights at all ? Cos many just "want to earn as much money as I could". But frankly... money is just a tool. Don't make others suffer for you. Even in the UK and in Europe.. the Royal families are not destroyed. Work, is a means to keep people sane, and to keep them from killing each other. So why should HK suffer... at the cost of what..."rentier capitalism" ? So an item is made.. and it gets shipped around the globe, using precious petrol.. for what purpose? It is used and reused and it is resold again as well. Why ?? Singapore and Malaysia love the CCP party. But the thing is.. HK existed even before the formation of the ccp party. And their powers is NEVER meant to be THIS powerful. Either the Western media and the Western world has mistaken their roles in the world.. and how other countries operate. But an advisory party, should not be accepted as the entity IN power !!! And it is often funny when people said that... especially those from SG etc... "There never was voting rights. Cos you had a governor." Er.... maybe cos they were coolies. And that is why they were not counted as the local citizens. When Britain took over HK. ALL the people that were not migrants. Were counted, and their lives were documented and they were registered. This is why he has no record or contingencies and understanding of how the actual HK Government came about.. and how it became what it is.. and who those individual people that sits in those civil service tiers came from. WHO they were and WHY they were etc. UK was fair... they only took what was expected to be needed and was part of the trade deal. And nothing more. So for us to see today.. SE Asian countries.. actually making life as if the people had no say ? I find that ludicrous.... Those people became the actual city's "administrators". Meaning that, they hold no powers. Power means, they do not have the right to destroy somebody else. "But you are not a finance person !" ------ lol.... Which person has not worked in finance, and which person has not worked in the navy, and which person could not speak English ? And which person needs to kowtow to the kids today ????? Did they really think that we are "uneducated farmers" from the fields ??? THIS was the classic "fisherman's sons" from the 1970s. (THIS is a good example of the "farmers" who now works in the Legco etc.) And why do you see some people cussing ? They know who is who, and who to cuss and who not to cuss. You wouldn't cuss your own family, would you ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAvM9POTsY&list=PLK7qCnafFFJbWojxFTmN7kmE1RJBD6JbJ&index=61&t=525s And this was... Britain back in the days.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLbPYQcUcgM&list=PLK7qCnafFFJYQEnNVBJTOrlvc3v7i47wc&index=22&t=696s The world war promise was merely about..."rebuild after the war" and then called quits. Nobody said NOR agreed that. It would go on forever. What is this "net zero" business all about then ??? Somebody stated it VERY funnily...... that... people are moving goods across the world for very pointless things. Very pointless reasons.
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@qrsx66 : The Cantonese people got split up.. and they didn't even manage to get a strong seat or hold in HK. So then, it managed to allow SO many foreign investors.. or whatever... and just also then took and grabbed some of the hard earned cash as well which was meant to be part of the city. That is why it is now going... And to be honest, they assume that, wherever they move to or go to... They won't need to pay cash or pay up. How funny... lol.... That is not what is likely to happen. This is why.. it is basically a bit of an actual misnomer. Cos the laws and whatnots, are all created by foreigners to begin with as well any way ? So now that the locals ... or the "indigenous people"... despite some of the government officials were also once upon a time, that fisherman's child or that farmer's daughter... Seems to be misunderstood and not accepted as well ?? Britain tried and they did indeed actually built an actual group of civil servants as well... and they made sure that they should and would indeed take the city forward...
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@adrianchan5799 : You know your details... Anyway... people want the mainland China to "open up"... and the State Council wants the other countries and the West to buy more. lol... So they are stalemate. Nothing to do with HK at all. Good for the locals to go back to however they want to live. Even if that means finally knocking down some of those high rises, and reduce the overcrowding, and create some more farm lands, that is public owned etc.... And not privately owned etc. And to also maybe clean the sea and coastal regions and sell back to the mainland etc.
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People often say... "but HK is owned by many oligarchs" !!! lol... And yet... do you think that we are not related to each other ? Why is Li Ka Shing, the same surname as my grandmother as well. As one presentor said it best... "on the one side of your hand, is flesh, turn it over... on the other side of your hand is also flesh".... For the Singaporeans, or the British Indians... they need to know... whom they are talking to.. and dealing with as well.... Cos just cos the land was a British colony, it was by no means that... people had control and power over others.
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@RodrigoPalma700 : You only need to know one thing and one thing only.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punti%E2%80%93Hakka_Clan_Wars When the opium war started.... people always remember this. But not so many people remembers the death of the 1 million punti people in HK. That is, the Qing dynasty tried to get their own people into the area... and they got some of the Northerners to go down...and then, this was when the kick off happened. In fact, Britain had HK since 1830s.... and it was a slow trade. There was also an actual grooup of people there already too. And HK was not an unknown destination. It existed since the Song dynasties. There were actual landowners that lived there. And the British, only documented the people that they know, or worked for them etc. And they don't have visibilities... (or this is my understanding).... of why there was people there. There was a famous rock, called Song Dynasty's rock.. which existed there. Some people say that, the people died and that emperor of that lineage died... But HK was an Imperial Oyster farm to begin with. They harvested pearls. And this was sent to the local provincial governor. Why were the actual people fight ? Who were these migrants? They call themselves hakka... but where are they from ? This is why sometimes even now... you need to know the migrants that lives in Singapore.. as in, which heritage they are. Most Singaporean have heritage from Fuijian... and not HK or Canton.... It's important that you don't take the wrong side here. And the UN convention IS supposed to protect the people of the land !!!! And recently, even somebody stated that, they preserved some heritages... since the UN law came in 1960s.. but in reality is that.... the law is to protect the local people that the land belongs to and let them build up their families !!!!! That is in ALL UN convention !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVcpZsem_lw&list=PLK7qCnafFFJb4XxCU_5gP5uuRbp2u_gQa&index=48 She said it the best.... she clearly stated that the party itself.. was a new thing... and that, you shouldn't confuse... the state's money..... to be that different to the actual... rest of the world. The UN does not override actual people, and their positions in life, or their heritages either.
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