This is the same story with anti china taiwanese protesters during the sunflower movement. They just figured out there are more opportunities in the mainland.
You really can sell the capitalists a noose to hang themselves with
It’s incredibly weird to me how much Bloomberg loves China. I’ll take it, I guess
The capitalists invested in China are incentivised to support it.
In 2019, Leung joined a Hong Kong movement to boycott Chinese-owned restaurants like many protesters opposing President Xi Jinping’s encroachment of the former British colony. Now she and her peers regularly go out of their way to the neighboring mainland city of Shenzhen for cheap food and massages
Lucky fuckers
The idea that you can just hop on high speed rail and within an hour arrive in another basically identical metropolis but also it’s 200% cheaper and you don’t need to learn another language or apply for a visa and can just go home at any stage would be a goddamn dream scenario for most people on the planet.
And they wanted to reject that and go back to British rule so as to protect some guy that murdered his GF in Taipei from being extradited to the mainland? God damn western brainworms suck.
Rip to the ones moving to the UK what a wild decision. Have fun with our “democratic” government and crumbling infrastructure i guess
Highlights:
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Accommodation provided by the UK government was subpar
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The UK government doesn’t treat him like a citizen and would regularly rummage through his belongings
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He can’t attend university
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British cuisine sucks
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He wants to go back home
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They were not prepared for the mega-racism they faced in the West. Some actually very sad stories for people who kinda deserved it but got much worse than they deserved.
They’re probably mostly the bourgeois population anyway. The gusanos of Hong Kong if you will.
I thought they all moved to singapore
Well the US has moved on to a different thing now so they can’t stay in the US
slava whatever ✌️
“encroachment”, you cant encroach on what’s yours.
the original comic is from Chicken Thoughts, they make the cutest bird comics
They’re experiencing Shenzhen, it’s not exactly the face of socialism.
It’ll be good for HKers to realise that they’re fundamentally the same people as mainlanders but this won’t build communism. Honestly it’ll take direct control from Beijing in another 20 years for that.
edit: unironically send all young hong kongers to the countryside
Yeah the wording lacks nuance, it’s a meme, but the general gist is right. Whether it’s specifically socialism that they’re experiencing isn’t the point, its that they have been told to fear the mainland, and when they go visit they find it’s not so different from home after all, and actually much better in some ways. They’re experiencing China, which includes shenzhen, as much as it includes beijing, or the countryside.
"Hong Kong is at risk of getting marginalized,” Roach said. "It still has the talent, the institutional heritage, the rule of law, and you hope that all of that remains enduring features of Hong Kong in the years ahead. But many are asking questions about those very attributes.”
anglo named roach
Buddy comedy of a Cuban exile and an Anglo in HK hired to help the US and the HK Rioters in 2019 but are so inept all of their attempts backfire and end up helping the CPC
Coming to cinemas near you: Roach and Gusano! Rated PG-13
Dang Roaches keep talking shit.
What, they don’t like the freedom of paying ridiculous amounts of money to live in a closet in Hong Kong?
"Hong Kong used to have freedom, Now it’s lost all that. So why wouldn’t I go to mainland China, where at least things are cheaper?” Xi’s efforts to crush dissent in Hong Kong have weakened its distinct identity from China and instilled a new sense of political apathy.
What freedom? Really all the west has to offer is vague and empty phrases and a slight feeling of smug superiority.
Really all the west has to offer is vague and empty phrases and a slight feeling of smug superiority
100% this. Everytime a hog or a lib says we have freedom, I ask them “What freedom, exactly?” It’s just vibes and vague platitudes
Lured by cheaper prices in Shenzhen, Yip moved across the border into a bigger apartment in November and now has a 1.5-hour commute to work in the Central business district on Hong Kong island. The research associate at a financial firm laments the shrinking space for speech in his former home, but doesn’t believe politics should get in the way of a good life. "People may oppose the central government or have concerns about political freedom, but how does these concerns affect your everyday life? The truth is that it doesn’t,” he said.
its distinct identity from China
This is the part that sucks; they’ve lost that cultural quality of being British boot lickers and are gaining the average Chinese cultural trait of having pride in oneself and in their country’s accomplishments.
and a slight feeling of smug superiority.
It’s literally just this. They liked being honorary Aryans.
The freedom to call Chinese people locusts.
It was literally a colony, governed by unelected foreign officials from the other side of the world. No HKer was ever a governor, it was always anglos. Very democratic, very free