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A comment on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested.

Re:Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested by dav43 on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:01AM (#24106051)
It’s all over for Hong Kong as it has been in the past - a bridge between east and west - a NYC of Asia.

I lived there for 4 years just after the GFC as the transition was slowly continuing to stronger Chinese rule.

My view is nothing new. My gut feeling take away was that China will want to run HK into the ground - as a middle finger to the west - and have the only strong pillars on the region to be Shanghai and Beijing.

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Re:Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested by yomly on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:47AM (#24106323)
Don't sleep on Shenzhen. I think China will look to starve HK by moving as much of the HK financial sector to the bay area.

I can't speak for what will happen wrt the international links that make HK what it is, but if China pulls it off they will have hardware, software and finance all in one place.

Imagine if NYC had a baby with SV...

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Re:Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested by gnusty_gnurc on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:57AM (#24107776)
> Imagine if NYC had a baby with SV...

shudders

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