How China crushed Hong Kong

In 1997 China promised to protect Hong Kong's freedoms for the next five decades-but just 25 years after the handover, Hong Kong is now a police state. So how did China crush Hong Kong?
00:00 - How China crushed Hong Kong
00:44 - Tiananmen square massacre vigil banned
02:37 - China’s ambition since 1842: reclaim Hong Kong
04:16 - How China needed Hong Kong’s booming business
05:30 - President Xi’s aim to crush Hong Kong
07:30 - How China infiltrated Hong Kong society
08:51 - The tactics of the Chinese Communist Party
11:42 - How exiled Hong Kongers are speaking out
13:00 - What can the world learn from Hong Kong?
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[@feverpitchxx]

I think Portugal handled this case very well by just giving full citizenship of Portugal.

[@jimmylam9846]

A citizen of first world to a third world country.....99 % don't speak Portuguese !

[@jamisonz3365]

Portugal is such a poor country to begin with. But I guess it's still better than mainland Chyna though.

[@rickiex]

The british did the same. Many sent their children.

[@GreencolorUK]

Your brain is poor ​@@jamisonz3365

[@truthwin37]

If sharp criticism disappears entirely, mild criticism will become harsh. If mild criticism is also not allowed, silence will be considered ulterior motives. If silence is no longer allowed, it would be a crime to praise not enough effort. If only one voice is allowed to exist, then the only voice that exists is a lie.

[@gsreads]

Voice of Indian PM now

[@drumpfdon760]

Sharp or strong criticism is always welcome, as long as it's the truth!! The problem is if those criticism are based on lies and BS!! So?? Do you think it's ok to use lies and BS to criticize??? Hahaha... hahaha.... what a shame!!

[@altacalifornio5375]

If

[@krac3x438]

@@drumpfdon760 are you having a seizure?

[@drumpfdon760]

@@krac3x438 ?????

[@pctong5387]

Thank you to Britain for giving Hong Kong the freedom and democratic right to choose their Governor and their local MP..........wait my bad. That never happened.

[@lrt_unimog8316]

They did-and Peking made threats of invasion if these designs were implemented. Thus were we stuck at 訓政, excellent though it was.

[@pctong5387]

@@lrt_unimog8316 evidence please

[@lrt_unimog8316]

@@pctong5387 I’ve somewhere else to go, but hopefully you’ll find everything at Kew.

[@12yummy34]

@@pctong5387 The declassified documents of the UK government show that, as far back as the 1950s, Britain floated democratic reforms in Hong Kong only to be firmly rebuffed by the People's Republic of China.

[@cowholy3031]

@@lrt_unimog8316 Stop hiding 🤡🤡

[@sovietsheep5051]

If there is a method to do so, it would be pertinent to attempt to remove the age restriction so this can be used as study material for schools.

[@alvarez6487]

First, the British take Hong Kong from China and occupy it for a century. During the long occupation, the British denied Hong Kong residents the right to self-determination. Britain appoints colonial governors without even asking Hong Kong residents.…… now that Hong Kong reunited with its motherland British suddenly care about democracy and human rights. Oh please 🙄

[@MarceLoCostaGameplays7661]

Economist=fasclst neoliberal media

[@PatrickFan123]

Nobody's more hypocritic than the British.

[@shaduck06]

HK folks will improve any developed society. Except maybe Singapore

[@rihitjamb3757]

China taking over of Hong Kong makes sense and nobody would have a problem with it if the Chinese government didn’t suppress human rights and introduce communism. Hong Kongers are happy with the way they are living and don’t want to move away from capitalism

[@RussianBot-0509]

@@rihitjamb3757 imagine choosing imperialism over communism. People in Hong Kong are no longer second citizens after returning to China

[@nanky432]

This should not surprise anyone. Most of the elite business class in hong kong already left Hong kong back in the late 1990s after the transition. They all mostly left to get citizenships from other English speaking nations in the pacific. Most now simply travel to hong kong for their business needs while maintaining their families and assets overseas. Meaning they have no skin in the game when it came to Hong kong sovereignty, so selling the place out to the mainlanders so they can improve their connection was simply a business transaction. Such a state of affairs was a mortal blow to Hong kong. If you want to experience what hong kong was like you now need to travel to Singapore.

[@aslouie]

Yet truth be told, isn't fully reunifying Hong Kong into the mainland is the poison pill curse, that's already accelerating China's rapid decline--even mass secessionist collapse, given how Hong Kong has always been the mainland's ONLY legitimate avenue for accepting foreign direct investment, i.e., the ONLY real reason why China became the 2nd largest economy in the world--NOT primarily because of indigenously Chinese hard work?

[@fupopanda]

The wealthy people that left were wise. It was always obvious to anyone that was awake that Hong Kong had no future where it wouldn't be totally controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was always the most obvious outcome in the universe. The agreement was already signed and sealed, and it was just a matter of when. Fighting that trajectory was always futile and useless. Hongkongers who weren't destitute or very poor that didn't leave have themselves or their parents to blame. Leaving was the wise thing to do, and there was two whole decades to do it. Fighting to maintain the sovereignty of Taiwan, on the other hand, is very reasonable, as the CCP has never had any legitimate claim on Taiwan.

[@aslouie]

@@fupopanda And maybe that's why in China--as it is in Hong Kong, it can be argued the working underclass are the real bad guys here, i.e., those that can't hack it on their own initiative, will use 'patriotism' as an excuse for not making not only meaningful change in their own lives, but also making sure everybody else is as miserable of a failure as they are.

[@DD-sr9xm]

There is a strong economic element to this situation. The wealthiest families in HK and the wealthy Hongs (large HK business conglomerates like HK Land, Jardines, etc) have supported China and magnified their wealth. They are people and institutions that don’t have a sense of fairness, only an ambition for more wealth and power. In a way that’s Confucian because they are doing it for their families and future generations. So there is a very stark distribution of wealth issue with virtually ZERO upward mobility for the have-nots. That sets the tone for the political unrest. I love HK. I love the people. I lived there for 15 years in total, on and off between 1986 to 2010. I hope for a middle road that will keep peace and balance out the situation.

[@CannibaLouiST]

Not Confucian at all. Confucianism always look down on merchants of all forms

[@PoliticalWeekly]

There is no middle road, the constitutional settlement of Hong Kong is causing a great deal of crisis because it is inauthentic.

[@ccmulder5870]

Interesting, do you think there is no gap between the rich and poor in western countries let’s say the Great United KINGDOM? 😅😅😅

[@mewkatlol]

[[Slaves shall serve]]. Protesting has never done anything to stop strong parties. Protesting is a game for slaves to feel like they are doing something, apart of something bigger than themselves. False hope that is snuffed out by any strong party. Slaves shall serve and this will always be the way until the sun freezes and the moon catches ablaze.

[@archangel7052]

So capitalists are bad?

[@joebe123]

I'm sorry to point this out. I've been to Hong Kong eight times. It's one of my favorite cities at least before the Communist party took over, but Ching Cheong is an unfortunate name for a Chinese activist.

[@user-fw6no7wm7y]

你是dog🐶 可怜的垃圾

[@darth.severu5]

I'm sorry to point this out, don't like it, stay away. No nobody forced Neanderthal.

[@lookbehindyou5951]

And you shut up scum​@@darth.severu5

[@ClaudiaC-du5xr]

Sorry, but I don’t understand? What is so unfortunate about the name Ching Cheong?

[@joebe123]

@@ClaudiaC-du5xroh, Ching Cheong also sounds almost the same as ching chong with a soft tonal change on the e

[@echan275]

I’ve been searching for this footage for couple of weeks, thanks Economist.

[@fayHoran]

Do you know any Hong Kong vlogger?

[@sabinakoka7967]

What's the music at minute 4?

[@philipt6621]

oh i love how you put method on your background music 😁

[@QianyiLi-bi7jl]

Are you in China Mainland? People deceived by CCP are pretty much like this.😂

[@ZZZZ-rr5yx]

I hope the editors of Economist can also do a series on how Western powers supported the war in Middle East and crushed millions of people there …..

[@youngjin8300]

Fair point. I give you a thumb-up. But it doesn’t make Chinese government any less guilty.

[@jshenqxu]

@@youngjin8300 guilty for what? For making Chinese people's living conditions better and better?

[@sidakong9467]

@@youngjin8300 at least we can agree on every superpower is equally evil

[@aarontse3334]

@@jshenqxu no, for shooting its own civilians when they asked for greater control over their government

[@ImmuneGEORGE]

@@jshenqxu Pretty much every countries living conditions get better and better as GDP grows. But China is making the living conditions much worse for the people of Hong Kong. The country has gone downhill for the past 25 years.

[@edwardching827]

I can't thank you enough for telling the story only true Hongkongers know but very difficult to explain to other people in the world. Thank you very much!

[@saikauleung1198]

All lies. That's why you find it hard to explain. Even these video is all lies.

[@JessiIsHere]

@@saikauleung1198 you must be someone who support ccp or to seek controversy 😑

[@EntranceOfTheVoid]

As a true Hong konger, i should agree that this is respect.

[@A1Kira]

@@JessiIsHere It doesn't matter what they think. Doesn't matter what you think. Its Chinese land.

[@JessiIsHere]

@@A1Kira yeah, and that’s sad

[@andicee8324]

I am born and raised in Hong Kong, I was a RHKP officer briefly up until the take over. In 2019 I took part in the protests most days for 7 months up until the end of November 2019 when I had no choice but to leave Hong Kong and I haven't been able to go back ever since.. Prior to the take over you could feel things were changing and we were warned that the police will be flooded with mainlanders and pro-CCP officers. I never imagined things would get as bad as it has in such a short time. It was heartbreaking to see what had come of the once world respected HKPF, they were now a lawless pack of thugs very similar to Mao's Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. The whole experience during the protests left me traumatized, I couldn't sleep for months and I've only just been able to watch footage of the protests. I dream of the day all exiled Hong Kongers can return home and meet again.

[@AleWestQ]

I am sorry to hear that my friend, sincerely many of us in the West even't realised this has happened. I found out today through a podcast! I come from Russia and Cuba, and those countries are both infected by Communism, I feel you and understand you more than noone! Stay strong, the freedom will come one day.

[@tanmayambre4109]

​@@AleWestQ nothing is impossible, plan for next 30-40 years like your leader did.

[@user-fw6no7wm7y]

别抹黑了 一只蟑螂屎 你们是白皮肤的狗而已 可怜的蟑螂屎

[@Mr-pn2eh]

Honestly I would want some Hong kongers to instead stay in Switzerland. At least you will get better public transport and food without seed oils

[@robocop581]

You’re a loser. No loss for HK. Only cowards run away

[@curly_bill]

2:56 I’m sorry but that journalist’s name just cracks me up

[@user-st9eu6sn5r]

我只能说希望香港人自己毁了香港😂😂😂😂😂

[@bonganimavuso7638]

Yeah, too stereotypical

[@paulskiye6930]

HongKong and Macau. If you compare these two cities, then you will realize how Hong Kong's ruin cannot solely attributed to CCP. There are so many other factors at play.

[@Blaze6432]

Macau and Hong Kong can't be compared, they had different fathers who raise them very differently.

[@paulskiye6930]

@@Blaze6432 So you are assuming that it's "father's fault"

[@nunograzina3374]

Macau was a tiny island leased to Portugal in 1557 for tradding porpuse. It was never taken by force or as a result of a war deal like hong kong. "...both parties were interested in the role Macau would play as a trade and culture gateway. China also wanted Portuguese help in fighting piracy"

[@aslouie]

Sounds like typical wumao logic: deflect any and all responsibilities for mistakes onto others, which I find to be a very typical Chinese trait. I guess that too explains why China epitomizes what The Lord of The Rings stated, of how evil can never create; it can only corrupt.

[@aslouie]

@@paulskiye6930 If a Portuguese/British fathers turning the Chinese people into a highly productive, civilized, forward-thinking/responsible society--even self-governing/independent, Christian capitalist, democratic state is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

[@JORDIIMusic]

Praying for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong.

[@hi4806]

pray for the victims of mass shootings in the United States every day.

[@bristoled93]

@Nguyễn Khoa Nam If that were true, why are so many people fleeing HK to the UK seeking freedom?

[@mrcool2107]

@Nguyễn Khoa Nam nice joke

[@user-yb6km4kh1o]

希望你们的国家能比香港更加自由。 香港人可以堵塞破坏交通和银行，可以殴打杀害路人，可以袭击警察。 你们国家还需要更加努力才能追赶香港的自由。

[@laqueenawilliams4762]

@@bristoled93 LOL because those cowards were part of the riot.

[@coreyng]

Although HK is hopeless, I still appreciate that you make this video.

[@sharon12223]

Never loose hope

[@Arangggg]

There is tremendous hope for Hong Kong to be rejuvenated by interagration with the greater bay area project. This will make Hong Kong a central part of what will be the strongest economic hub in the world.

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

@@Arangggg : ¡ Yes !

[@antmsurvivorpokemon1]

@@Arangggg imagine being this delusional

[@jackychen5578]

It is just hopeless in your eyes, not hopeless in Chinese's eyes.

[@madmax4607]

Tnk u Interesting 👍👍

[@bobo2422]

What was the name of the renowned journalist name again? I forgot.🤔

[@karlpopper601]

Respect to the journalists.

[@cklam8722]

Totally biased news by unqualifed journalist.

[@norincofan1949]

You mean the NED funded propagandists

[@owenb8636]

China: don't worry Taiwan! We'll respect your democratic institutions 🤡

[@brianlowe3529]

Considering you are a province of China United nation charter

[@theMarhaenist]

Smear like you can win

[@yudiji1596]

clown is yourself

[@jackychen5578]

怎么尊重没有的东西？

[@Canguterio]

Taiwan will never be under communist dictatorship 🇨🇳💩🤣

[@nanaki1990roblox]

Hong Kong to me always seemed so colourful and flourishing economically and culturally

[@boknows8263]

Hong Kong never had a general election in Britain Colonial era. UK just sent a random guy to be Hong Kong mayor. not sure how Hong Kong had democracy if they can't even elect a mayor.

[@Blaze6432]

Yah they also didn't have smart phones back then so I guess they don't want them now..... oh wait wanting democracy had nothing to do with the British, it was because HK was an open society where even the British could be criticized

[@user-vz9qv3lo9m]

@@Blaze6432 Your mum would have had the same job though. Now, go back to the sewer.

[@sonialee8553]

A heart-breaking video

[@thewiseone7286]

A propaganda video. Don't totally believe what you see in the video.

[@McScaramoche]

I’m from Hong Kong and I’m glad to hear that you guys care for us so much ❤❤❤

[@salvadorpericullo7]

Hey, I'm from Guatemala and I'm really interested in Hong Kong, how are things going right now?? Any recent news or updates??

[@McScaramoche]

@@salvadorpericullo7 Not much has changed but we still need to put on masks we have an app that is basically tracking everywhere we go

[@DantheMan2605]

As a British I respect your people

[@McScaramoche]

Thanks you ❤️

[@salvadorpericullo7]

@@McScaramoche wow, that's worrying. Have there been any protests recently?? Because sadly I haven't heard anything on the media

[@natestanding2969]

What is the score at 8:20

[@hinsonlegobrick9045]

I had 7 very closed friends in hong kong in elementry school. 4 of them moved to london and 2 moved to canada because of this

[@user-ts8xr9fp6c]

Yes, but I bet they still holiday in Hong Kong.

[@merucrypoison296]

2:56 there’s no way that’s his name 💀

[@quyenluong3705]

They can at least pronounce it properly

[@lhg9106]

This is the true power of media, speaking for justice.

[@norincofan1949]

This is the true power of Western propaganda

[@ccmulder5870]

So powerful as it only says what ppl want to hear

[@stevey9282]

@@ccmulder5870 Only means tons of lies!!

[@outsidewell6932]

Truth? Told by one side only. Not even one person from the silent majority of Hongkongers who disapproved the riot was interviewed.

[@mukeshloyal204]

This background music is really noisy other than that great work 👍🏻

[@quyenluong3705]

Please don’t take freedom and democracy for granted said by someone in the vid Yes don’t take it for granted because you didn’t have it when British was ruling hk

[@Canguterio]

Under British rule there was democracy not under Beijings crushing dictatorship 🇨🇳💩

[@leungpingkei]

Thank you for creating such informative work that explains the root of the malaise in Hong Kong.

[@MrBoliao98]

我地出便啲人睇到你地辛苦，都心知肚明， really take care and I wish Hong Kongers all the best. We stand with you.

[@user-hj6nq8ef5e]

@Tong zijyun 有港独天天上街游行展示暴力。

[@user-wg9hc5pf2r]

Beijing’s grip on Hong Kong is not tighter than Washington’s grip on the Korean Republic and Japan. After all, the foreign judges in HK have not been kicked out of HK. But Washington controls the prosecutorial systems of Korea and Japan and uses them to topple anti-US administrations.

[@marcob4630]

Call it only "malaise" ....

[@chineseyuan6311]

wish Scotland and northern Ireland would be independent in short

[@appletree6741]

you mean scots and irish are being imprisoned or ‘disappeared’ when protesting for independence? Or are you just making false equivalences that serve your own bias

[@raybod1775]

chinese yuan Majority of people in Northern Ireland don’t want to be part of Ireland.

[@tomace7924]

Well…1.4 billion people can’t be wrong.

[@faisalchan7501]

China:now we can take after hundred years

[@hopefulmimi1241]

Thank you for making this video. I enjoyed seeing the familiar faces with whom I am familiar.

[@Strider_141]

Thank you for the video

[@KirenKK-te7pb]

The world can do nothing about it. Power has always been authoritatively right.

[@enokiy]

2:55 AYO THATS A NICE HONDA s2000!!

[@frontseated5983]

Great vid. I strongly recommend that you do a documentary on "How Britain brutally crushed the IRA fight for Independence"

[@user-vg5dn5hv8z]

History repeats on & on

[@derekwampum8861]

Korea get played by Japan and China over and over again

[@user-vg5dn5hv8z]

@@derekwampum8861 :(

[@nitaseely6830]

korean 😂😂😂

[@miko-mn9bg]

@@nitaseely6830 ???

[@user-tc5ge5yc1l]

@@nitaseely6830 ?ㅇㅉㄹㄱ

[@Islapark518]

I’m a Korean that lives in Hong Kong, and I do have to say that at one time the protests in 2019 got so bad that school shut down, and I remember being so devastated when tiktok got banned.. We are slowly starting to worship China and loose our freedom.

[@user-me9cl5qo3e]

19年那些人就是在搞破坏。

[@andytherobloxian2151]

Yup hong kong banned tiktok, best thing ever

[@Islapark518]

@@andytherobloxian2151 sarcasm?

[@EverybodyWearsaMask]

Why did you move to HK ? I feel Korea is much better .

[@Islapark518]

@@EverybodyWearsaMask I did not move, I was born in HK. My parents got jobs here, that’s why they moved.

[@noirberries]

Great reporting, just curious if you are aware of Miles Kwok / Gui Wengui. Is he actually helping hong kong or a con man?

[@kevindst]

He launched a cryptocurrency where you can only put your money in but can't get it out

[@noirberries]

@@kevindst That definitely sounds like a scam. I don't know him well but I have met people who talks about him non-stop, and have invested in his causes.

[@onajournal]

HE IS A CON MAN! SPIT CRAZY THINGS TO GAIN ATTENTION

[@leonardbrikus9906]

How England tear off a part of Irland

[@bristoled93]

I am half Irish and England has not done that.

[@quyenluong3705]

That’s cuz you’re only half

[@bigmedge]

How wumaos get paid 50 cents per lying comment

[@bhobg]

Outstanding work as always

[@qijia4769]

only if it dares to add a bit of truth about the nature of rioting.

[@RexKo]

@@qijia4769 HK has the most expensive housing, and claimed to be most tiring city. Most HKers got no time to cause chaos, if there were no police brutality & hk govt didn’t enforce a ridiculous law, favored by the dictator above.

[@qijia4769]

@@RexKo tell this to the locals who were brutally attacked by the rioters. lies will not stick. it is not just for the lies from communists, but also from the enemy of communists.

[@RexKo]

@@qijia4769 Those few who got triggered by pro-CCP individuals, then pulling out revenges, all got sent to jail. . As opposed to pro-CCP groups & armed cops, who breached the law against protesters, more than 95% of them got away from legal consequences.

[@qijia4769]

@@RexKo when you claim to be only anti ccp meanwhile physically attacking everyone who doesn't agree with you, then you are no longer anti-ccp but anti humanity and falls into the definition of terrorism. you can find problems within policemen group all around the world. but it doesn't mean police and terrorists are the same. these are not rocket science but common sense.

[@DjHazardous]

*Every year we are nearing a war like what happened in fallout franchise*

[@joseluisgarrido6945]

Excellent!

[@user-iv9hu1db7u]

20 years old, when i was born as the third kid in my family. My family was fined 10k RMB, the sad fact is that my family only make 3k RMB per year at the same time.

[@HH-xs2gm]

You were a mistake… your family shouldn’t have had you. You costed your parents so much money 💀

[@TFYS223]

I thought they increased the limit to 3 kids

[@jackytang3683]

One family one kid by law a d policy even Xi and many CCP high levels , but your family has three. What's wrong about the fine?

[@thewiseone7286]

Singapore had stop at two kids restrictions or you are fined and faced many restrictions.

[@kalinga2nihon]

2:55 This rhymes well

[@Jake_kumar]

😂😂

[@PeterPanQuails]

Thank you for a fair reporting of the of what, how and why of the current situation of Hong Kong. It used to be that history were written by the victor. Now that with internet, at least there would be documentation and reporting of the events from all sides for the future generation to see and to judge for themselves.

[@cantripleplays]

History was NEVER written by the victor, only those who write it down

[@janushkumaren]

I could feel ❤

[@trinhngo07]

Your courage to speak out is so admirable. You guys are heros!

[@pinkyleung9202]

Thank you for telling the story of Hong Kong.

[@fung3416]

西方的媒体在误导你的思想！没看出来吗？！

[@awhkwong]

thanks

[@user-jt4bx5kq8h]

they silenced those in hk where westerners still were using them as the their playing field

[@thebaddest7841]

So when is the US giving Hawaii back? or allow American Samoans to vote?

[@charleswomack2166]

Whataboutism! Wumao!

[@lastChang]

You need to see a doctor to check your head!

[@Rusty-vl2oi]

Don't forget Guam.

[@eveleung8855]

More like ask them how is Independent of Texas (again) coming, rumor said they are in the making.

[@jamesbuchanan3562]

@@eveleung8855 the difference is that texans have the freedom to vote anyone the like, hongkongers can’t even not vote john lee

[@drlau8898]

Thank you for reporting China tyrannical suppression on Hong Kong to English speaking viewer.

[@pikachus5m166]

Nothing tyrannical whatsoever, Hong Kong is better than ever and hopefully the US and UK take in all the treasonous dregs of society, bit like the Cuban boat lift of the 80's. China would do well to make note of all the BNO now useless idiots, and rescind their citizenship.

[@taikonautaparawara]

do you know what the UK did to China??

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

@@taikonautaparawara : *Yes*---Hong Kong just like other territories that fell under the iron fist of the British Empire faced fierce oppression and lack of individual/civilian rights. Same goes for India under British rule.

[@user-wg9hc5pf2r]

Beijing’s grip on Hong Kong is not tighter than Washington’s grip on the Korean Republic and Japan. After all, the foreign judges in HK have not been kicked out of HK. But Washington controls the prosecutorial systems of Korea and Japan and uses them to topple anti-US administrations.

[@user-ix7xj6vw5d]

​​@@taikonautaparawarayea UK was trying to save those who want live in freedom. unlike evil CCP

[@TSC.TariqSearchChannel]

Excellent

[@mysteriouschiu5484]

Now lets talk about IndyRef2 or Catalan or how to crush them :)

[@chengavitch10]

Wish the peoples of Northern Ireland and Scotland all the best in its fight against the oppression and for freedom and independence!

[@justajellydonut2]

Those peoples live in a free country where their rights to vote and express themselves are not hampered with, and most of them support the union. No comparison whatsoever

[@zicob2536]

??

[@dannnsss8034]

Oppression? Please, they're hardly unlike Hong Kong or China 🤦

[@rothsshvili5125]

IMHO, Scotland is the bully most of the time that blackmails the UK government from time to time with so-called "Scottish independence" lol

[@dawnnadir]

Another CCP bot🥳

[@violeto11111]

Watch this English video clip as an objective assessment of what happened then. There are 4 clips altogether

[@tc860]

2:55 Bruh what a name

[@AndyTung-jc9sq]

Totally one sided story. I stopped subscribing to the economist after 25 years. The double standards are just unbearable

[@mylife70777]

Economists will not show American criminal wars in the middle east

[@user-df1ek5rc1h]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[@ferny7402]

Found the Chinese mole.

[@Rebirthhhhhh]

Wumao spotted opinion ignored

[@Canguterio]

Hello China 🇨🇳🤣 💩🇷🇺 troll

[@fal218]

China is fully controlling Hong Kong not will control Hong Kong but every realistic person saw that coming.

[@blohmymind]

Wow - it's the 4th of June today. What are the odds?

[@EMBINBUN]

a very fair description of what it is.

[@rikiishitoru8885]

The consequences of statism

[@monkfishkilla]

Phenomenal report. Thank you

[@yangYang-df2zy]

Sorry, but just wondering when Scotland will vote for independence?

[@EdwinaTS]

I've returned to HK in Feb 2019 after living in UK since 1969. It pained me to see so much destruction and inconsideration by the rioters. The national security law eventually calmed down the riots and finally return HK to function normally. That is quite a different narrative from the Anglo Saxon countries. UK took the opportunity to grab our top earners like doctors, leaving us far more exposed to short staffing in government hospitals. Hong Kongers are definitely not grateful for that! Still, we have a far better health service than the UK NHS! Top life expectancy in the world.

[@Baebythebay]

Britain didn’t give HK back to China because of some agreement. Had Britain cared about HK’s democracy, it would have let HK elect their own leaders. Britain had to give HK back to China was because Britain invaded HK and signed a 99 year lease with China, and Britain had to leave when the lease was over.

[@queeg3353]

Wrong ... the lease was for the New Teritories. HK Island and Kowloon were British colonies by treaty and could have remained so. But as NT amounted to about 75% of the HK landmass, it was unrealistic to return NT and expect the HK and Kowloon to function normally. The "border" between Kowloon and NT is not marked by fences or towers, it is a line on a street map. Impossible to divide. There would be a border unlike anywhere else in the world, not even Gibraltar or ceuta / Melilli could compare Think of the Berlin Wall, but much worse

[@quyenluong3705]

@@queeg3353yea so majority of hongkong was rented, they needed to return it. Sounds fair to me

[@lrt_unimog8316]

Mark Young helped design a workable plan for 憲政 in HK right after the war, at the same time as the Republic did next door-and 🇨🇳 put paid to both. There were real threats from 🇨🇳 to march into HK if any of it was implemented.

[@vj9608]

Thank you for the story, informative and professional. :)

[@jamesyu4704]

Which place, city and country on earth does not have NS laws? Well, HK didn't have any from 1997 till 2020. Now the loophole is closed, rhanks

[@cbdislife2514]

What is the name of dr chungs podcast? I can’t find it. Great video! Thanks for covering! This is sooooooo sad!

[@shenzou4778]

20 years ago, ' How China Collapse ' now, ' How China Collapse '

[@Aaaa2468]

Well someone also keep saying How US collapse

[@davadh]

If people in the United States protested at a LAX, delaying all the flights, I bet you everyone of those people will get dragged out of that airport within 2 days max by military operatives. I'm surprise China actually let those protestors stayed that long.

[@ericp1139]

HK cops were very patient and restrained, actually. Look anywhere else like France right now. Or the BLM summer in the US.

[@yinclin]

@@ericp1139 I agree

[@buhdahto]

I have not heard about any of this happening in Macau. Does China's government see Macau as less important?

[@buhdahto]

@they lupu Macau stopped being Portuguese in 1999, two years after Hong Kong stopped being British.

[@Jasonisolr]

I’ve been living in hk my whole life, but during the pandemic, things changed for the worse, there were protests, violence, the polyU incident, and the yeun long attack, the economy, the free society that we were promised to see wasn’t there anymore, it was for the first 20 years but not anymore, china has changed for the worse

[@PiquiMassaro]

Today, in a place where lively political debate used to be the norm, people have become wary of crossing an invisible line laid down by the national security law, or NSL. Still, the sentiment towards Beijing is far from uniform in divided Hong Kong. The liberal and the young look on aghast as children’s publishers are jailed for sedition and musicians are arrested for playing protest songs

[@quyenluong3705]

Protest songs… that sound right to be arrested.

[@user-on3ox4nv5t]

really feel sorry for HK，though can not do anything that may help.

[@DantheMan2605]

The Americans will be the judge of that to stop China

[@serayahaquino6781]

Full love and respect for hong Kong people..

[@amigo55688]

Chinese subtitles please. All Taiwanese should watch this!

[@Byehk2047]

As a Hong Konger, thank you. At least we are being noticed.

[@alex-dj3of]

The game hong kong 97 is this stuff

[@numpopo]

香港是中国的

[@citybend103]

Same

[@t-dog7401]

2:37 Other things aside, would you just listen to this commentary glorifying "The UK invaded China and colonized Hong Kong". And now "China's ambition to take full control of Hong Kong goes back many years". No kidding I'm so confused...

[@quyenluong3705]

Yes doesn’t make sense. It’s obvious that hk will return if it was taken by force.

[@user-qo4kb4dr1i]

Sometimes places can be free, you know.

[@user-qo4kb4dr1i]

@@quyenluong3705 it didn't have to be returned by force

[@quyenluong3705]

@@user-qo4kb4dr1i no one will give you for free esp if it wasn’t yours to begin with

[@paul5475]

That's why Tokyo gets more popular and we never heard HongKong since.

[@aslouie]

Not unless you're Peter Zeihan, making bold statements of how Hong Kong's longer term prospects are better than the mainland Beijing's--given what he said could happen by 2030--and it's not like The Hill's Saager & Krystal have noticed on 3 separate occasions on how still plausibly right he is.

[@swoondrones]

Politics is a legal crime syndicate. So sad.

[@henryt9731]

I would not dare to show my face knowing how China would track one down for assassination...

[@Mr.Patrick_Hung]

Seriously no, life is not like that here.

[@mliu3172]

when history tastes bitter, jealousy follows

[@Zagaara]

Now do one with Taiwan

[@dennischoy8654]

This is the view from Western Media. Period

[@munahassanmohamed2756]

If Hong Kongers want Britain they should be allowed to immigrate to UK

[@grantm6933]

They are allowed. There is a specific visa for Hong Kongers.

[@nicetry3381]

But UK treat them as second citizens

[@singlendhot8628]

As long as we deport illegal migrants, then sure!

[@user-xiaoyaoniangwangbo]

@@nicetry3381 yeah , they should be treated like 2nd

[@JK-gu3tl]

I wished America did the same.

[@samarthbagwe1736]

Hope Taiwan doesn't give up

[@onajournal]

Taiwan is part of China, read the Cairo Declaration

[@thomHD]

This content is just visible enough not to be affected by Chinese bots. Any such content on less major channels and, especially Insta or FB, is dominated by state sponsored activity.

[@jinyaodesandies7179]

Do yall see shu Lin’s face when she’s on a video call？ it’s like😮

[@ladislaugomes7447]

How did the British get Hong Kong? You should've started from that.

[@craigr4763]

The video's titled 'How China crushed Hong Kong'. If you want to watch a video on a different subject then go elsewhere. Also, to make any kind of implications, which I assume from your tone that you are, such as that we ought to judge what China's doing now in comparison to the British acquisition is quite disgusting. Britain gave Hong Kong their independence and then China snatched it from them. People were free in Hong Kong before and they were better off. Today, Hongkongers are brothers and sisters to the UK and we welcome all who want flee China's oppression - the oppression we were withholding. Do you not think Hongkongers would have preferred to stay under British rule as opposed to Chinese? Is your question more relevant than that? I think not.

[@ladislaugomes7447]

@@craigr4763 Please. It was only an observation.

[@craigr4763]

@@ladislaugomes7447 Perhaps, but not a very well placed one.

[@quyenluong3705]

@@craigr4763well she started the video with history. So she should have completed the intro better.

[@quyenluong3705]

@@craigr4763the observation was well placed.

[@uiuopo567]

Didn't Dr. Zhong escape to the UK for his own benefit?

[@husbandfishable]

why he has to be a perfect victim?

[@levin36]

@@husbandfishable if you knew what foreign countries did to China, you may ask yourself why China has to be a perfect victim

[@lijenhsin421]

No one did anything to change this.

[@user-sg8my2nm3r]

can you give referrences for numbers like, "more than 80,000..."

[@Mr.Patrick_Hung]

No, they can't! Much of the stuff in teh video is fabricated or twisted.