{"id":2914,"date":"2014-09-05T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2014-09-05T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:58:50","slug":"hong-kong-now-what-a-chinafile-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hong-kong-now-what-a-chinafile-conversation","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2014Now What?-A ChinaFile Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVID SCHLESINGER, MEI FONG, NICHOLAS BEQUELIN 09.02.14<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPro-democracy protestors hold up a sign (center) reading: \u201cChinese Communist Party: You Lie!\u201d They gathered in front of the Government Offices in Central, Hong Kong, on August 31, 2014, after the National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee of the CCP in Beijing endorsed a framework for political reform that rules out open nominations by the people of Hong Kong in local elections.
\nDavid Schlesinger:<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s tragedy is that its political consciousness began to awaken precisely at the time when its leverage with China was at its lowest ebb.<\/p>\n

Where once China needed Hong Kong as an entrep\u00f4t, legal center, financial center, talent center, and education center, now the situation is reversed. Hong Kong is dependent on China\u2014without Chinese deals Hong Kong\u2019s law firms, investment banks, and private equity players would swiftly relocate elsewhere; without Chinese tourists Hong Kong\u2019s hotels and shopping emporia would shudder and shutter; without Chinese-linked opportunities Hong Kong\u2019s young people would face under- or unemployment.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong went through 150 years of relatively benign colonial rule by Britain without London ever creating true democratic consciousness or institutions and without Hong Kong ever truly demanding more of a say in its administration. Hong Kong\u2019s business elites vied for British favor and awards, from business monopolies to the sovereign\u2019s bestowed knighthoods.<\/p>\n

China surely counted on the change of suzerain leading to a simple change of focus from London to Beijing\u2014and, frankly, in the case of many in the business and political elite that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

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