Tag Archives: Hong Kong

HK "goers there."Zero HedgeHong Kong Embraces Helicopter Money - Govt Gives Every Adult Citizen HK$10,000Tyler Durden

To protect their own futures, the people of Hong Kong must reflect carefully on the need to end violent protests and work together to address genuine grievances. The alternative is not some fantasy of an independent and thriving Hong Kong. It is a devastated economy, a divided society, and a lost generation. Project SyndicateCan Hong Kong Avoid Tragedy?Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on...

Yesterday I put up a critical post by Rod Dreher. Today, he has posted a counterview he received from former Hong Kong native whose parents live there.The American ConservativeA Different View From Hong Kong Rod DreherSee also Terrorism?Zero HedgeHong Kong Police Targeted With Explosive DeviceTyler Durden

Backgrounder.Asia TimesAn alternative view of HK protests George KooA US viewThe American ConservativeMortal Kombat Against Beijing’s Agents Rod Dreher Which is off the wall?

Backgrounder of black blocs in general and of the HK black bloc.Global ResearchBehind Hong Kong’s Black Terror Pepe Escobar Crossposted at Strategic Culture Foundation

Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued a blunt and unambiguous warning to any foreign actors trying to tear Hong Kong from Beijing, stating that such plots would not end well for the perpetrators. "Any attempt to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones," he told Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in a meeting on Sunday, according to China's state broadcaster CCTV. He added that the Chinese people would consider any outside effort to divide...

Hong Kong is the most important market in Asia for luxury brands – as a stepping stone to mainland China and a magnet for shoppers from there and wider region Brands are unlikely to invest more in the city now, and could start downsizing as soon as January, an adviser to the luxury retail industry says South China Morning PostClock ticking on Hong Kong luxury store closures if protests continue – it could end up like a third-tier city in China, LVMH executive says Vincenzo La Torre See...

Good backgrounder. Not just about "interference."The Vineyard of the SakerTracking foreign interference in Hong Kong Pepe Escobar

Two years ago, in Hamburg, Special Forces were deployed against black bloc looters. In France, the government routinely unleashes the feared CRS even against relatively peaceful Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vest protesters – complete with tear gas, water cannons and supported by helicopters, and nobody invokes human rights to complain about it. The CRS deploy flash ball strikes even against the media.... Western media accounts, predictably, focus on the radical fringe, as well as the substantial...

Martin Sieff is exactly right on this IMHO, recalling his boyhood experience in Belfast as precedent. The protestors and West believes that Hong Kong is a vital resource for China, but they apparently do not realize that this is no longer so. Hong Kong's contribution to the Chinese economy has shrunk greatly, and China has already been planning to replace it with Shanghai as a financial center, as it use to be, and other centers on the mainland. Reports reveal that Hong Kong is already...