Happy July 1. Holiday here in Hong Kong. “Reunification Day”. 回归节.
Hui Gui Jie. It happened 25 years ago.
ADDED: Bernard Chan makes the following point in today’s
South China Morning Post I agree. I noted years ago that “interpretations” of local laws, by China’s
National Peoples Congress, were not demanded by Beijing but
sought by our own local government. I thought this was crazy at the time. So did many folks. But “Beijing interference” in HK affairs remains the dominant narrative of why we had the 2019 protests and riots. Not to mention that not a one of the teenagers who took part in those riots would have had a single clue as to whether or not Beijing was interfering in our local affairs. I rather doubt they even know what China's National Peoples Congress is.
The riots of 2019 were a nativist, ie bigoted, reaction to more mainlanders in Hong Kong. Speaking Mandarin! Buying our property! Taking our jobs! Making us use simplified characters!
