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    Highest number of Hong Kong adults identify as ‘Chinese’ since 2018, survey finds

    Current affairs commentator Derek Yuen said that the changes in identity could be related to the exodus and a changing outlook among those who stay in the city. “In order to survive, prosper and thrive… you have to adjust your mindset,” he said.

    More people in Hong Kong identify as “Chinese” compared to in previous years, the results of a poll by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) have shown.

    Although “Hongkonger” remained the most commonly held identity among respondents, the survey findings released on Tuesday found that more residents aged 30 or above identified as “Chinese” in recent years.



    The institute successfully conducted phone interviews with 1,000 Cantonese-speaking adult Hong Kong residents between May 31 and June 5.


    Results of the survey showed that the rating of those who identified as “Chinese” had increased from 56.8 to 61.5 when compared to PORI’s similar study six months ago. It was the highest rating since December 2018.

    Additionally, the rating of those who identified as a “member of the Chinese nation” rose from 60.7 to 65.0, and as “member of the PRC” also climbed from 53.6 to 59.1.

    Meanwhile, those who rated themselves as a “Hongkonger,” “Asian” and a “global citizen” decreased across the board. The 75.4 rating of the “Hongkonger” identity was at its lowest since June 2017.


    Age gap

    According to the data revealed by PORI on Tuesday, more respondents aged 30 or above have identified as “Chinese” since 2020.

    Meanwhile, the proportion of those between 18 to 29 years old who identified as “Chinese” was only 2 per cent in the latest survey.


    Current affairs commentator Derek Yuen – who applied to run in the delayed 2020 Legislative Council election as a centrist candidate – said during PORI’s press meeting that he thought that Beijing would find the results “quite encouraging.”

    “Without Beijing implementing significant policies [to raise national identity recognition], it is already seeing favourable results,” Yuen said.

    When asked by HKFP about the reasons behind the recent increase in Hongkongers’ recognition of a Chinese national identity, Yuen said it could be related to the wave of emigration, as well as people’s shifting mindsets.

    As Hong Kong’s democratic movement reached a low point, Yuen said that many with strong feelings against mainland China or the Chinese Communist Party had already left the city.

    Yuen said that those who have chosen to stay – especially in the 30 to 49 age group – needed money for their family or to afford property.

    “These people recognise this is China’s international financial centre,” Yuen said. “In order to survive, prosper and thrive… you have to adjust your mindset.”

    Yuen added that there was “a rather large group of people” who valued stability and economic performance, and Beijing’s implementation of the national security law had given rise to “the stability some people want.”

    However, Paul Wong, a lecturer at the University of Wollongong College Hong Kong’s Faculty of Social Sciences, said during the same press briefing that it was uncertain “if respondents were totally free of fear” when responding to recent surveys.

    Wong said the national security law could have had an impact on survey findings, as freedom of speech and thought in Hong Kong were more tightly constrained.
    “We don’t know how many of them are speaking their true feelings,” Wong said.

    Highest number of Hong Kong adults identify as 'Chinese' since 2018, survey finds - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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    “We don’t know how many of them are speaking their true feelings,” Wong said.
    But we can take an educated guess....

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    HK has a 'go freely' policy, so those that wanna leave- don't let the door slam you in the ass on the way out! Plenty of western countries are putting down the welcome mat for political reasons- and hongkies make damn fine immigrants too. Still no mass exodus though, BooHoo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    HK has a 'go freely' policy, so those that wanna leave- don't let the door slam you in the ass on the way out! Plenty of western countries are putting down the welcome mat for political reasons- and hongkies make damn fine immigrants too. Still no mass exodus though, BooHoo.
    You idiotic, dribbling douchebag.

    Hong Kong has passed a new immigration law that includes powers to stop people entering or leaving the city, raising fears of Chinese mainland-style “exit bans” in the international business hub.
    The legislation sailed through a legislature now devoid of opposition, as Beijing has quashed dissent and sought to make the semi-autonomous city more like the authoritarian mainland after huge and often violent democracy protests.

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    Give me one example of someone stopped from leaving that does not have an arrest warrant. There are none. Oh dear, another massive fail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Give me one example of someone stopped from leaving that does not have an arrest warrant. There are none. Oh dear, another massive fail.
    You are one sad sack, motherfucker.

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    You can not just be stopped from leaving a Western country on national security grounds- you can be stopped if you are too far behind on your alimony! Sad fucks.

    Po' lil' baby snub got the Ukraine boohoos.

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    Impressed by freedom of Xinjiang youth, French writer keeps publishing to unmask anti-China propaganda

    Maxime Vivas (Vivas) is a French writer and journalist, who wrote a book titled Ouïghours, pour en finir avec les fake news (Uygurs, to put an end to the fake news) based on his two visits to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2016 and 2018.

    Recently, his new book Les Divagations des Antichinois en France (The ramblings of anti-China forces in France) has been published in which he wrote about how he was under attack and threats for insisting on speaking the truth.

    The Global Times (GT) reporter Liu Xin interviewed the French writer on his views on the West's rumor-mongering campaign against the Xinjiang region and their anti-China campaign as a whole.

    GT: You recently published a new book titled Les Divagations des Antichinois en France (The ramblings of anti-China forces in France). Could you introduce the background of publishing the book?

    Vivas: In July 2021, my friend Jean-Pierre Page and I published a collective book, in which we brought together 17 prestigious intellectuals from five continents. The book is called
    La Chine sans oeillères (China without blinders). It shows that China was not alone and it had friends everywhere who are capable of denouncing the widespread lies in media.

    Shortly after, a huge report of 654 pages, titled Les opérations d'influences chinoises, un moment machiavelien (Chinese influence operations, a Machiavellian moment) was made by the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (IRSEM), whose sole target was China.

    In addition to the many repetitions, errors, even lies, we find serious contradictions throughout the pages. And then, I was intrigued by the presence of an "associate researcher" in the IRSEM - a senior officer of the US army. Moreover, one of the writers of the IRSEM report had worked for NATO until 2019.

    With my friends Jean-Pierre Page and Aymeric Monville, we then decided to write a book in response to this report and we titled it The ramblings of the Anti-China forces in France.

    GT: In the book, you mentioned the IRSEM report referred your name for 54 times and attacked you. You also unveiled the attacks and lies that some Western media made against you. What kind of pressure have you gone through in recent years? Why do you keep on speaking truth?

    Vivas: We had indeed noticed that in its October 2021 French version, this IRSEM report mentioned my name for 54 times (61 times in its English version) and displayed eight photos of me. This seems to say, "Wanted dead or live," and it is a little dangerous at a time when passions lead to violence against me.


    A photo in which I can be seen demonstrating in Venezuela to support Hugo Chavez was included in the report and every word the IRSEM "researchers" chose to wrote besides seems to alert the Pentagon that I am with the "red" shirts. The image is taken from the "Mélenchon."

    It must be remembered that the US wanted the fall of the Bolivarian president and they were working for it. Suddenly, the IRSEM reported to NATO and the Pentagon about the friendly behavior of a Frenchman toward a country that Barak Obama had designated as a threat to the national security of the US.

    The researchers had investigated me going back to the 1960s. They had found things insignificant in the eyes of a French reader: I had been a union activist, I was the host of a cultural program in a Toulouse radio, administrator of an information site, Le Grands Soir, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had written prefaces for two of my books.

    Nothing that defies the law or makes me an "extremist." But the report was published simultaneously in French and in English and for a NATO or Pentagon reader, the proof was made through me that diabolical China had diabolical support in France.

    Because for the Americans, my portrait in the IRSEM report is not a peaceful, law-abiding militant, but of an enemy. This report is an act of allegiance to the military forces of the US.

    There have been physical threats, threats of lawsuits and slander campaigns toward me. There was also the provisional arrest and the appearance in court of my youngest son - a plot probably used as a means of pressure against me.





    FULL- https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1268915.shtml


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    US should give Afghan money back before making promises: Global Times editorial

    Afghanistan suffered its deadliest earthquake in 20 years on Wednesday. More than 1,100 people were killed and over 1,600 injured as of press time. For Afghanistan, which is already facing a dire humanitarian crisis, this unexpected, sudden natural disaster is making everything worse.

    China immediately expressed its readiness to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan in light of its needs. Pakistan, India, Turkey and other neighboring countries, as well as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, have expressed their condolences. The tragic suffering of the Afghan people has aroused widespread and sincere sympathy in the international community.

    What is odd is that, after the earthquake, the US embassy in Kabul currently operating in Doha, US National Security Advisor to US President Jacob Sullivan, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued statements one after another, saying that they were "deeply saddened" and they "stand with them [Afghan people] during and after this terrible tragedy."

    These gushing words are extraordinarily hypocritical, ironic and even cruel when they were uttered by this bunch of Americans, as it is widely known that most of the sufferings the Afghan people have to endure today are caused by the US. What makes people even more outraged is that Washington still freezes a huge sum of $7 billion in assets in the US belonging to Afghanistan's central bank.

    In February, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to arbitrarily distribute $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank. Half of the fund would be used to compensate victims of the 9/11 attacks. This move in fact means the US has made the money its own. The world's most powerful country blatantly robbing of the assets of the poorest country in the world has met strong condemnation from the international community.

    At that time, the Global Times launched a global online petition demanding the US return the assets to Afghans without conditions. The petition received over 400,000 signatures in the end. But the US has been turning a deaf ear. Now, as a natural disaster suddenly fell on Afghanistan, the Afghan assets in the US have become even more "life-saving."

    However, the US, without the move or even a slightest bit of willingness to pay the money back, is talking out loud about "standing with the people of Afghanistan." This is like shedding crocodile tears on Afghanistan's wound. The US is using sulfuric acid as Band-Aid for Afghanistan.

    Afghanistan was smashed by the US. During the 20 years since the US invaded the country, more than 30,000 Afghan civilians had been killed and 11 million Afghans were made refugees.

    After realizing that its geopolitical goals can hardly be reached, the US hastily and irresponsibly withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, leaving a big mess behind to the Afghan people. Not only that, the US also imposed unilateral sanctions against Afghanistan, shut the door upon a large number of Afghan refugees, and even robbed Afghanistan of its money.

    Before the earthquake, the UN asked donations of $4.4 billion in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan to alleviate its humanitarian crisis, but was still short of about 70 percent of the intended sum. Because of the earthquake, the funding gap becomes even bigger at the moment. For the tens of millions of Afghan people suffering in great misery, this means they will have to continue to suffer from hunger, poverty, the collapse of life and even the loss of life.

    Rich countries - represented by the US - which often talk about "human rights" are extremely stingy and hypocritical in the face of the humanitarian disaster they had created in Afghanistan. They uttered a few beautiful words and shed a few drops of crocodile tears, but they are apathetic and indifferent and have no sincerity at all.

    What the US owes Afghanistan is not just the more than $7 billion. Facing both natural and man-made disasters in Afghanistan, if the US really wants to "stand with the Afghan people," it should start with paying the $7 billion back immediately.

    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1268920.shtml

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    So sabang makes a c u n t of himself again by showing he knows fuck all about HK, and we immediately get pages of irrelevant cut and paste waffle to try and put some distance between him and his witless fucking nonsense.


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    Sabang is starting to remind me of Boon Mee, posting endless nonsense just to get to the next page.

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    That is for the reader to decide MK- although considering 2 of the articles I posted are from the HK Free Press, a 'pro-democracy' publication, you do your team no favors.

    And you can be prevented from leaving a western country for numerous reasons. Why is this only uniquely a crime for HK? Most nations have national security laws too. Why does this uniquely become a crime for HK? Double standards some? At least any person tried on such grounds will be handled by the HK Judicial system- not deported to the PRC.

    And yes, it certainly deserves to be said- crocodile tears some from the USA, when it has stolen billions of dollars of Afghan government funds? Love that Schadenfreude.
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    He's at skidmark levels of posting bollocks now.

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    But isn't she cute.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    He's at skidmark levels of posting bollocks now.
    That is because he is lit all the time.

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    Hong Kong’s best years are coming: McKinsey chief

    TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, Hong Kong was the finance center of China. Today, it is the finance center of Asia, says Joe Ngai of McKinsey, the international corporate analysis firm.

    The city’s story is just beginning. “The best years of Hong Kong are ahead of us, rather than behind us,” he said.

    He recalls being in Hong Kong during the handover, when fears had been whipped up about market stability and the dollar peg. The concern was unfounded. A quarter of a century later, the difference is “self-evident and astonishing”, he said in an interview with Wang Yuke of the China Daily Hong Kong.

    “People who left around 1997 have missed out on the golden 25 years of Hong Kong development,” Ngai said. “It’s remarkable that Hong Kong has continued to prosper, with accelerated growth, which was realized on the back of the giant strides made by the mainland.”

    Ngai admits to being an optimist about Hong Kong, but notes that success is far from guaranteed. The city needs to play its part in the growth of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, he said—that’s where the energy is.

    Ngai, who is McKinsey’s managing partner for Greater China, said the “neighbor effect” should benefit Hong Kong. Shenzhen’s astonishing development from farmland to being bigger than London in 30 years is well-known, but other parts of Guangdong are also in growth mode, and Hong Kong needs better integration with the region. “Hong Kong will feel the flow from Shenzhen and other GBA cities, and benefit from it,” Ngai said.

    McKinsey Greater China has more than 550 partners and consultants across offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei.

    His statement reflects the interest among many financiers in recent trends. In related news, the number of companies launching themselves on stock markets in the US and Europe have dropped by 90 per cent this year.

    While numbers have fallen around the world, the western nations have been worst hit. “Among the 10 highest-valued IPOs this year, just two listed on US or European exchanges,” said a Financial Times analysis of 2022 initial public offerings.

    Hong Kong has been the world’s top IPO launch center for much of the past decade, and prospects are rosy for the future, with the US becoming more hostile to Chinese firms. Many of the fastest-growing firms in the world will list in Hong Kong rather than New York.

    Hong Kong’s best years are coming: McKinsey chief – Fridayeveryday

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    You're such an embarrassment these days, sabang. OhOh and backspit levels of fuckwittery.

    What a shame to see for an intelligent man.

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    I believe the managing partner of McKinsey China is an intelligent man hal. Are you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I believe the managing partner of McKinsey China is an intelligent man hal. Are you?
    I'm glad you asked the question, sabs, as I very much doubt you are currently in the state of mind to make any coherent decision.

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    Millions? The population of HK is 7.6mm PH. Hardly. If you want to provide some information about these Chinese names, go ahead.

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    Your wont of being perpetually disingenuous when presented with facts does you no favours at all.

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    I have been presented with no facts at all. Two Chinese names, unknown to me, and an allegation that 'millions' of people have been prevented from leaving HK (pop'n 7.6mm), which is clearly nonsense. And you accuse me of disengenuity! Those are clearly not facts hal, and I am afraid you will never become a partner of McKinsey if you try to pass them off as such!

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    Q.E.D.

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    He's started the fingers in the ears stance when presented with things even he cannot distract from.

    I'd go as far as to say he's even plumbing the same depths as OhOh these days.

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    Sad, really very sad.
    Quite.

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