It’s like building infrastructure works.
Travel to the mainland has been made more compelling by new infrastructure that cut travel times in half between the cities, a booming array of entertainment choices and low prices
But he added the integration could raise questions about the city’s identity
B-but what about… checks notes… Hong Kong’s unique identity of overpriced goods and services 😢
They really did the fucking “but at what cost” meme
We never get a satisfying end to these things; The same people who lied about Iraq and Libya still have jobs in the respectable media.
They’ll never acknowledge that western-backed riots opposing the extradition of a murderer might have been somewhat misguided, instead we get “actually Xi Jinping successfully crushed their hopes and dreams by building inexpensive mass transit”.
The Shenzhen frenzy dovetails with Hong Kong residents’ growing willingness to work and live in mainland China. A survey of people under 40 in the city by the Hong Kong-Guangdong Youth Association conducted last year found 66% of them are now open to employment across the border, tripling from 22% in 2020.
China genocided HKs culture so that more ppl stop realizing how bad cummunism is
Damn communists improving their people’s lives to earn their support
How evil and authoritarian
It really is a Brave New World, isn’t it?
On holidays, Hong Kong shoppers account for as much as half of all customers at Link CentralWalk, a stylish mall next to Shenzhen’s high-speed railway station that’s a 20-minute ride from Hong Kong, said a company spokesperson.
Wow that’s impressive! Only 20min?
Shenzhen is a special economic zone right? This means that the government is giving special economic benefits (e.g tax cuts) (can’t give more info I’m not too sure about the details). They created several ones on the coast and this created a disparity in development where the coast line is much more developed that the inland desert lol. It kinda sounds like the disparaît between the sun belt and the agricultural center or the US.
There’s a guy at the end that says that opposing the authoritarian government has no use because political freedom has no influence on your life. However this article makes it sounds like life is all about shopping and consuming, the only benefit of Shenzhen is shopping, buying stuff.
I don’t live in the US but this is the same there right? Authoritarian government… only consuming stuff, etc…
China and the US are kinda the same, the only difference is that it’s going well for the buying power of the Chinese people who can afford a rent on the coastline.
Take a look at a map of China’s HSR network. Most of that network isn’t profitable off of fares: instead, the coastal infrastructure is used to subsidize less profitable lines in the interior (that undoubtedly provide benefits, but not necessarily enough to directly offset the costs with fares).
It’s a given that coastal cities will become more prosperous. China is using the prosperity of coastal cities to improve living conditions in the rest of the country.
Good, defying Xi is the most important thing the young generations can do.
didn’t read the article. did you?
Bro did not read the article
Evil authoritarian […checks notes…] democracy! Stick it to the will of the people, fellow kids!
He’s an autocrat.
Hong Kong’s democracy has been crushed by the mainland government. Half the fucking island protested - and their demands are being erased.
Hong Kong’s democracy
Lmao, bourgeois “democracy” is only a democracy for capitalists. Real democracy like that of mainland China actually serves the people by improving their lives, lifting them from poverty, building infrastructure and making goods more affordable for workers, as you can see in this article.
The UK’s 99 year imperialist lease was up, thus marking the end of the century of humiliation for the people of Hong Kong. Just yesterday I explained six ways to Sunday how misguided it is to call China autocratic/authoritarian/totalitarian, and why our governments and corporate media consistently tell us that it is that https://lemmy.ml/post/14407407
It’s a one-party state.
If the majority of the island taking to the streets doesn’t count for anything, pick a better lie.
The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere
Whether a bourgeois democracy has two parties or a thousand, it’s still a democracy of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.
BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.
So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.
This is not news, you say.
Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here’s how they explain it:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.
Ignore what words mean, pound the table.
Attack is not defense.
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The first sector composed of members from industrial, commercial and financial backgrounds. They are mostly elected by corporate votes and is the highest portion of uncontested subsectors
Such a vibrant democracy, electing officials by corporate vote.
This is something I didn’t expect, but I should have seen coming. When people left Hong Kong for Britain, I guess it should have been expected that the general opinion on the government would shift. It’s a shame.
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If the remaining people
According to the article around 180000 left which is around 2.5% of the population of Hong Kong 7.2 million. There basically wasn’t that many people who emigrated to cause a shift in perception.
As many have suspected it was the issue of cost of living that caused the protest. Now with easy access to more affordable goods & services across the border, the problem mostly fixed itself. If you relied on outside media narratives convincing you otherwise, you would come to the wrong conclusion.
To quote Steve Jobs
People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
