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> A significant number of the seats in Hong Kong government are voted/belong to "industry/corporations"

Sounds like they're pulling an America

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It has been this way since 1997; Hong Kong is the only terretory I know of governed by a CEO.

The City of London has a system not too dissimilar.

Note: The City of London is not the same thing as London. It’s real weird.

> Hong Kong is the only terretory I know of governed by a CEO

Many US counties have a similarly-titled head of government.

No, since when America practicing functional constituency [0]? It was invented long before 1997 when HK was still under British rule, nothing to do with China, so I think you can take easy with whataboutism.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_...

The problems of Hong Kong started with colonization by the British. But of course only now the western journalists are worried.

Most HKers would not see that as a problem. The city thrived under British rule.

That’s because the British killed all the HKers that resisted. Most HKers lived as second class citizens for decades.

It culminated in the ‘67 protests, where the British killed over 50 protesters.

It was only after the 80s, when decolonization was popular and the return of HK inevitable, did things change for the average Hong Kong citizen.

Blatantly false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1967_leftist_riots

By protestors, you mean people who attempted to spread the cultural revolution into Hong Kong and ultimately failed.

HK continues to thrive under Chinese rule.

We have the most unaffordable property market in the world, technology is stagnating, corrupt construction companies are cutting corners and building dangerous infrastructure. Yeah sure.

Because they were ( partially ) left alone, as was originally agreed till 2050.

How can you (already?) forgot the massive protests against Mainland China? A country is made of civilians, not corporations.

Under the rule of British, the people of HK could never protest like they're doing now.

What are you talking about? Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers were protesting about Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. That was eight years before the hand-over of HK.

During the ‘67 protests, the British killed over 50 Hong Kong protesters.

`67 "protests"? You must be kidding me. The series of events, known as the "1967 riots" in history, weren't really just protests or riots, but also a series of indiscriminate terrorist attacks against Hongkongers. Over a thousand bombs --- yes, a thousand, no kidding --- were planted, among them about a hundred were real. Most westerners may not know this, but this series of so-called "riots" is actually one of the largest-scaled terrorist attack in modern history.

And you said that the British had killed over 50 Hong Kong "protesters"? I don't know how many Chinese terrorists were killed, but I am sure that tens of Hongkongers had been murdered by the Chinese terrorists. Some were killed by the bombs planted by the terrorists. Some were killed by Chinese militants (equipped with firearms) near the border. A famous broadcaster, Lam Bun, who criticised the Chinese terrorists, was even burnt to death inside his car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Bun

Yeah. A lot of journalists are ignoring the indigenous peoples that were massacred during colonization.

They even ignore the fact that for much of Hong Kong history, the people were treated as second class citizens.

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