Hong Kong after the handover: the highs and lows of 25 years under ‘one country, two systems’

[@ameyapotdar461]

under british rule,hong kong people had no say in who would be thier governor,and also the chinese were treated as second class citizens,they were banned from entering the highest point in hong kong as well

[@bobsemple07]

It was better and more free under British rule than the commies of China

[@kiwikiwi1865]

Exactly! Most British colonies like India did not seem to be proud of being under Britain’s rules. HK people are happier to sing British or American anthems and many chose to leave the city when their children are required to sing Chinese anthem in schools😏

[@drunkenmonkey1887]

The highest point? You mean the one with the shopping mall and hiking paths?

[@discoloured3492]

@@drunkenmonkey1887 I think like fancy restaurants, shopping centres and certain places that’s strictly for white people

[@maarij9097]

@@drunkenmonkey1887 he meant like (for example) hong kong's peak, wealth in hk is considered as living high in the mountains...

[@datianlongan5567]

HK has never stop reinventing itself since the beginning of people settlement on this tiny land. Like anywhere else in the world, HK belongs to those who believe in it and are willing to work hard to make it a better tomorrow. I believe HK's future is as bright as ever. Congratulations!

[@charleswu1541]

De-colonization first through a cultural genocide. Then we can talk.

[@ikkeisaac7888]

+1000 social credits 🇨🇳

[@erwinlee2842]

@@ikkeisaac7888 -5000 social credits

[@alanmathew9722]

How many offf you think this video is quite leaning towards Chinese idea of honk kong

[@imycunt372]

SCMP is owned by Alibaba, hence it cannot be anti China, let alone objective.

[@DD27_27]

Free Hong Kong from evil CCP

[@cosmoray9750]

Free catalonia. Free basque. Free Julian Assange. Free Kashmir. Free khalistan.

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and Russia

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live BRICS

[@khunagnes1364]

Typical western sheep

[@johnoliversecondary2942]

long live the nationalism in hong kong flag 🇭🇰

[@petercn8989]

It’s one country two system, not two countries two system. The priority are always nation security.

[@tkyap2524]

It's for the people to decide the life they want to live or let others tell them how to live.

[@kyb2027]

If those so called freedom fighter funded by west were independent lol. If only west didn't try to incite Hong-Kong, china wouldn't be this aggressive lol. When west try to use china land to attack and play politics lol I don't blame china even if china became aggressive

[@SpyFromMarsZeus]

Tell that to the British 100 years ago

[@bananian]

​@@SpyFromMarsZeus The British gave people far more freedom. That's why people were afraid of the handover.

[@youngz13o]

Hong Kong back then 19% of China's GDP ... today, its less then 2%. Sure not all problems are economic facing Hong Kong but definitely the slow down in economy and poor future prospects, coupled with unaffordable housing is the under current for this instability. China is just an easy scape goat as usual. Hong Kong people can easily go over the border to look for better opportunities if Hong Kong doesn't have them anymore.

[@SpyFromMarsZeus]

Do you have any idea what it means to have 19% of mainland's gdp today?

[@jamescad1]

@@SpyFromMarsZeus 19% back then China was poor, now 2% of China as 2nd biggest world economy is bad?

[@bananian]

Mainlander brains, only have money on their minds. Never mind the purging of all the independent media overnight. Information about HK all comes from foreign media now. Artists don't dare sing about freedom, but yeah sure it's about GDP. 🤦

[@Potomacstud]

To the hong kong people living there , may you have peace and to all who intend to leave may you plan well your jouney and destinations , that is all that have to be said

[@leonardchua3999]

Is gonna be 1 country 1 system after 50 yrs?

[@jklee5419]

The rioters claimed that they loved Hong Kong so dearly that they had to vandalize and create chaos to advocate their political ideology. Then after that, the rioters just fled to other countries leaving a mess for other normal Hong Kong people to suffer.

[@yananneteoh9818]

They're scumbags.

[@bobbylee7755]

They are freedom fighters - fighting to keep HK alive. Not rioters.

[@Alan-megan]

@@bobbylee7755 🤣🤣🤣 More like rebels without a clue. Hong Kong was such a beautiful and vibrant place until you clowns destroyed it.

[@youtiongtiang1145]

Long live China 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and long live Xi Jinping

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China with progress and improve

[@m.k.s.7417]

What if: ALL of the "formerly divided Countries": (Ireland, China, Argentina, Moroco; Spain and India!?): could: "NETwork; together!!"!! *"The (formerly)_ divided -(up) countries:_ -NETwork!!"??*

[@gallaxian]

No longer two systems. Who do you think you’re kidding?

[@kyb2027]

No problem. Anyways its china. And non of your business

[@Gadras98]

you missed out the most important part, one country

[@elizeberthchang1246]

Congratulations to Hong Kong on your 25th anniversary. Upwards and onwards.

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

Chinese bot.

[@Alan-megan]

Hong Kong entered her 2nd golden age after the 1997 handover. Hong Kong was such a beautiful and vibrant city until the clowns destroyed their very own city. So sad but Hong Kong will recover when the clowns 🤡 leave or learns.

[@roastdchestnuts]

All problems blamed on new immigrants. Thats very British 😂

[@sizzflair6634]

I hope the people of Hong Kong better think twice, the west will not treat you well

[@awolpeace1781]

"Sovereign-type democracy" lol Sounds like what a king says to a legislature

[@Jabberstax]

The UK giving up HK was a huge mistake

[@jamescad1]

@@ssrbfantasyits was a forced contract by the imperialist on a weak nation

[@Derek032789]

The UK didn’t have a choice.

[@ssyuen]

In the business world the fall of a city is also the rise of another.

[@hassanabdulahi4705]

Yeah the other city is Shenzhen, right across the border from HK.

[@yongkiChen]

Long life China Hongkong👍👍👍🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and long live Xi Jinping

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China with progress and improve

[@David-vx4mx]

It's sad that the lease couldn't be extended after 1997.

[@阿部机]

What a dog with chain

[@David-vx4mx]

Not nice.

[@ARealKing1999]

I live in HongKong but I love China ❤❤❤

[@StephenfromChch]

Great production and highly informative. Greetings from Hebei province, Tangshan city.

[@quintonliu1146]

I think ur province got a huge triad problem

[@LittlePanda888]

Can't tell if you are troll...considering what happened in Tangshan. So how exactly are the victims of the assault case doing now? Haven't heard a word, whereas normally, the status of the victims in this kind of news would be reported firsthand. Pretty scary, if you think about it.

[@fearless6219]

Hongkong should've never leave uk and become a commonwealth realms or british overseas Territory

[@awfawsfasgsfasdawfa]

They didn't leave the uk they were handed over to china by the uk

[@rakeshbhandari7400]

we ( indians) love honk kong ..

[@卡卡d]

When will people realize violence won't achieve anything,but only give an excuse for authorities to impose stricter arrangements

[@aldyhabibie9717]

Only when they read some history book or probably when their hair turns grey. At least in my country, I found most of youth protests very unreliable mostly because of their lack of experience on the admimistration side of things (and they also cannot put their emotion in check). At the end of the day every policy cannot be put in place out of thin air, it needed a whole system backing them in order for the policy to work. With this in mind, certainly violence cannot change a single thing about it. But it did give the government an excuse to put in strict security measure. But at least it helped business owner since they didnt have to worry about their store getting looted and the probability of going out of business if they cant pay the repairment cost.

[@surroundgatari]

@@aldyhabibie9717 You certainly have a point, but I think it's quite relevant to mention when discussing the concept of change through protest and violence in China: The current day People's Republic of China exists as a state because of a people's revolution (Xinhai Revolution 1911), decades of regional conflicts (Warlord era), and a civil war that overthrew the Republic of China (1927-1949). Throw in being brutally and horribly invaded by Japan and you're looking at 38 years of straight violence and fast-paced regime change, where so many different factions tried to come into power to create their own desired vision of China. And the very government that today rules Hong Kong and the Mainland was part of that big mess, they were the violent young revolutionaries! With that being said, I personally don't believe in change through violence, especially in China where they have seen enough of it in their tragic history. If Hong Kongers or Mainlanders desire change, whichever kind of change it is, I truly believe they will create it for themselves through culture and intellect.

[@milaong9618]

HK, before the national security law, suffered too much from foreign interferences. Imagine even its judicial system, it's Supreme Court has been peopled with foreigners. Never heard of any country in the world like that. In fact one has to be a natural born citizen to occupy that position. There are also too many US NGOs, that have strong influence on their educational system, specially in cahoot with religious organizations too. Even its foreign MSM's, I found them very arrogant and disrespectful of the Chinese. Even in small Asean countries, foreign MSM won't dare to do that, there will be backlash from the public right away. What that Ms Lau saying the then HK judiciary under the British rule was very fair makes me laugh. May be she was just happy to be treated as second class citizen. Anyway, whatever the future of HK, would depend ultimately on its own people. Be realistic, FAIR and keep up the hardworking spirit of the Hongkongers, even if you don't want to recognize yourself as Chinese, which of course is very sad!

[@yananneteoh9818]

mila ong just like the UK is run by Boris, born In Turkey lived in US. and the Chancellor, Sunat Indian who doesn't bother getting a British passport

[@HuaZhou687]

The most objective view I have ever seen.

[@123321ps]

To people who wants to see Hong Kong collapse under China's ruling, "You won't see it until your own country falls apart and break to tiny pieces." For people living in China who wants to see China falls apart, You better leave China coz it ain't gonna happen and you need to move to other countries to see those countries to break into tiny pieces.

[@depositthesenutts8899]

fr fr

[@pinocchio221]

Not China, just winnie the pooh..

[@eduardadhi110]

Sad to see wat happened in Hk... No more freedom

[@rededitzthegoat]

@@eduardadhi110 they have freedom still.

[@yananneteoh9818]

@@pinocchio221 troll

[@malakatan3235]

If only west didn't tried to incite Hong Kongers, China might keep their promise

[@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687]

Majority of Pro-Beijing Hongkongers are mostly old people that wouldn't be living before 1947 and their descendants might be an American, Canadian and British passport holder incase if life becomes tough

[@alexanderdantonio8999]

HAHAHAHA 2 countries one system...more ccp bs. 🤣🤣🤣

[@UragilWorld]

So many Chinese internet warriors in the comment section. Hope Hong Kongers get their freedom back soon

[@weilee1155]

What Hong Kong need to do is to immediately initiate the process of decolonization It has wasted 25 years of inaction and shouldn't delay any longer

[@weilee1155]

@Time They can start the process by renaming roads with colonials name to local name

[@yananneteoh9818]

Do you even know anything about the rot in democratic prime examples?

[@quintonliu1146]

Actually decolonization already started that’s why some of those yellow ribbon ppl don’t like. I mean I talk to some of those yellow ribbon ppl, they are actually very friendly towards me, speaking better mandarin than my gf lol. However I doubt that will be the case or that we will have a rational conversation if national security laws were not implemented.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

*colonisation, but worse under a new order

[@bananian]

​@@quintonliu1146 The riot was just an excuse. If it were solely about quelling the riot, why purge all the independent media? Why force nationalism onto children? These are things the CCP were just waiting to implement all this time to squash independent thought.

[@scy3894]

Madam Lau drive to turn HK to a western styled democracy resulted in delaying much needed social reforms.

[@bananian]

What's eastern style democracy? A dictatorship?😂

[@scy3894]

@@bananian democracy on itself should be tailored to the local conditions, people, state of society and culture. Dictatorship of the proletariat?

[@Rod-bp8ow]

H.K is peaceful, specially when we visited the places back 2010. It is still H.K, where most tourist come and visit for many memorable souvenirs. 2022 onwards. Qui lai H.K/CHINA.

[@hufrags]

great content

[@babyshaya]

3:30 very hard to take Shaolin soccer's goalie very seriously but my man said his piece.

[@agnidas5816]

seriously about what? it's such a non-event .. man just says he stayed cause China promised something. No follow up, no nothing... just that one blurb. It's ridiculous, aimless and trying to confuse the viewer or make a manager think they shouldn't fire the editor I dunno

[@frybanshee43]

Video is 25 minutes lol

[@wavincewavince394]

HK great era is to a near end. History has always teaches us that every rise has it's fall and every begin has an end!

[@kyb2027]

Hong-Kong is not roman empire lol. Its just a city with full of chinese who was forcefully rule by British and divided but now its has again returned back to its mother land. Ofcoures few problems occurred but that's the life they will solve it that's why china is the 2nd largest economy. If they have just sit and cry or come out and do protest and destroy every like what happend in Hong Kong in 2014 lol it would be disaster. But one era of Hong-Kong over now new era has began and china with its all small children of city will be unstoppable

[@anitaquach7482]

HK will and always will be a greater era under China.

[@bobbylee7755]

@@anitaquach7482 lol you chinese bot

[@joshuamartinez5655]

@@anitaquach7482 they will become puppets who cannot criticize if they do they will be sent to death row and their organs will be put for sale then as soon a a dying wealthy westerner comes in they will find match and butcher them alive your just a piece of meat for sale according to your nice government we on the other hand have true freedom we can make fun of our presidents have toilet paper or shooting targets with their faces can you make fun of xi ginn pin Winnie the Pooh and have him on shooting targets or toilet paper I think not you’re not not truly free it’s just an illusion hammered by brute force after so long under communism the sheep gene has developed just follow blindly don’t criticize that’s fast evolution of a gene to avoid death

[@seankhmersight4854]

We loved visiting Hong Kong. Once Covid is over we will come back again for a holiday.

[@barryknight]

Even hongkonger claim they no longer have the home feel , everything change including language,food and etc

[@agnidas5816]

@@barryknight that happened in most places in the world though over the past 20 years. I talked to people all over the world as well as lived on different continents... you're very near-sighted

[@brankobogado6851]

@@agnidas5816 silence bot

[@barryknight]

@@agnidas5816 lol guess u didn't go hongkong, or you mean now china all speaking English? Hongkong no longer like before only true hongkonger know.

[@OceanChannelProductions]

sad what happend to this city

[@bobbylee7755]

Yes, it's really sad since the national security law was passed through and the freedom of Hongkongers taken away so swiftly.

[@harukrentz435]

As someone who grew up watching HK movies in the 90's i'm longing the days of HK movie industry to make its comeback!

[@yananneteoh9818]

I've watched HK movies since a child in the60s. loved them and miss them. Great Cantonese and Mandarin films👍😍👏🥇🀄 😍🌺🗺️ and songs!

[@TheRealIronMan]

To be fair back then the majority of the investment in HK movie industry actually came from mainland because mainland itself had no real movie industry , nowadays investments flows the other way because the movie industry in the mainland is insanely huge, so unless most Americans start to watch HK movies in theaters they have no way to make a comeback, its just one of those sad things nobody can do anything about it

[@bananian]

With the national security law in place? No way.

[@bananian]

​@@TheRealIronMan And yet their movies still blow. Can't tell any stories worth telling. Only propaganda. Only copying the west like top gun and 300. I guess it's original because it's 800, not 300. 😂

[@jamesharris8951]

What's changed? How about millions of people protesting? I guess they were protesting that not much has changed?

[@chavandposh]

Hong kong is lost case. Bye~! I ve been there many times. After National security law. I wont come back.

[@barrychmak7852]

Background information of Hong Kong : kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2LYg5ufjpKZjq8

[@jaxsun72]

That's a lie.

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and Russia

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live BRICS

[@awolpeace1781]

3:13 Total vampires

[@mr.anta_an5919]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🤲🏻🔥HOPE!🔥🤲🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@heleneallane6444]

Hope with China and Russia

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and Russia

[@YING-fl5jh]

鸡蛋碰石头

[@yokesimtan2459]

Congratulations to Hong Kong 25th anniversary 😍💪💪

[@MrStevemur]

Does anyone else have their impressions of Hong Kong under British rule shaped by the novels of James Clavell? 😀

[@Ohyeahhahaha]

I look forward to the days to come! Congrats, Hong Kong!

[@bobsemple07]

Should of stayed under the crown

[@northpride726]

Too bad white people do not belong there. Asia belongs to asians

[@wynn3077]

No longer a happy city.

[@malakatan3235]

Colonists greed know no bounds

[@bobsemple07]

@@malakatan3235 not greed we were keeping the people of Hong Kong free unlike the commies in China

[@s._3560]

Yes, you wished all colonies had remained under the crown...living in the past.

[@ravaldo11]

For all the criticism against the CPC (some of it justified) the fact that a HK based media outlet can produce and release this shows there is still one country with two systems.

[@karmatsering9539]

It’s best to close the door to the west and focus on rebuilding Hong Kong by attracting mainland Chinese. It’s time to cut ties fully with Britain and not let a British bank HSBC print its currency. It’s time for Hong Kongers to take pride being Chinese. Rather than spending time learning English they should have the young generation focus more on learning mandarin. Those who care to be with Britain Boris Johnson has made his offer for them to become full British citizens after 5 yrs of living in the UK if they choose.

[@TheRealIronMan]

No, learning English is a must, there is a reason why English is a mandatory class in mainland China, the future of globalized world is like this: 1/5 of the world speaks English, 1/5 of the world speaks Chinese, now if you are an international company in hiring, would you prefer a guy who can speak both languages or another guy who can only speak English? China is playing the long game, education is the key, unless most Americans start to learn Mandarin the competition between China and the US will be settled in 30 years.

[@peterleung8372]

遞解出境 是港英產物。great Britain no holy entity

[@Magmaa2169]

ngl before covid this country like Ukraine did nothing for me ironically, think of me as selfish but I wouldn't be the only human on this junkyard of a planet right now would I especially when people take matters into their own hands🤯☮

[@SadSad-de2cy]

Que de mensonges.

[@lenmarfox2947]

FREEDOM FOR HONG KONG! NO TO POLICE STATE!

[@yananneteoh9818]

What police state troll ?

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and Russia

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live BRICS

[@TarunKumar-uo5gn]

Hellish City

[@kennyli888]

HK needs to adapt to capture opportunities China could present. HK needs to understand whatever changes the current transition is experiencing is due to complex domestic and international issues. HK is politically naive as it never was educated in that respect. In the past decade, HK still runs off its ideals and ignorant to its own wrong doing, e.g the monopoly of real estate developers that the government so comfortably allow such operation for decades. HK has also ignored the China opportunity the past 20 years. Unable to capture it due to the unwillingness to localize or to the ones who tried, seem to have too much pride in bringing expertise to China. What HK people dont realize is the fact that they alone cannot expand their expertise in a such a populous and diverse country. I do hope that when HK is stable politically, it will be presented with a great deal more opportunities, especially with the great deal of innovation and growth in China at present. It is not a time to compare before and after. It is vital for HK to build bridges to China to sustain its importance. Wake up and move on HK, these sort of freedom and autonomy issues are time wasting and further builds burden to HK as a whole.

[@jwychau]

Agree with all the points but not sure how ‘time wasting’ it’s autonomy and rule of law issues are when it is the bed rock of Hong Kong’s financial and cultural success. For such a small region it has accomplished a lot on the world stage and served as a legal link for other countries to do business in China… China also has made leaps and bounds in prosperity from the Hong Kong judicial and economic system.. it is symbiotic relationship for one another.. one does not have to consume the other to be one country.. one country two systems can work.. it is people on the ground that fight for that wiggle room…Hong Kong is modern and precedence setting and pushing boundaries it is messy but that’s what it looks like when people set precedence in history. Nothing Hong Kong hasn’t done before.

[@kennyli888]

@@jwychau As you said, HK is a small region. It is size of a peanut compared to the map size and population of China. By the way, that goes for GDP as well. HK in general doesnt know how to look at the big picture. What once was the bedrock built by the British that helped both the British and HK people prosper doesn't contribute a great deal anymore. However, It was completely foreseeable but HK was in my view very stubborn and ignorant. Time that should have spent capturing opportunities with neighboring Shenzhen on technologies or deepening as a offshore RMB financial and investment center HK chose to having strikes and consistently complain that were damaging the confidence with mainland China. Oh! do HK still want to talk about their success history? Just like the way British still talk about the British Empire? Trust me, HK still has an identity crisis on its own doing. I left HK for Shanghai on that exact reason 10 years ago. On your point about being consumed, hang on, Singapore has actually took over as a better financial center in Asia. That is more being consumed.

[@jwychau]

@@kennyli888 oh dear, looks like I short circuited something and now you are spazzing out. .. it's not Hong Kong's job to look at the big picture? Remember? We are one country, that's Xi bear's job... you are going to make him mad. Like I said, did not disagree with opportunities squandered... Hong Kong was a financial success until the looming uncertainty of the handover, is that the dip in Hong Kong's history you are referring to? Xi is not going to like you saying that Hong Kong blows after his takeover.. and on the 25th anniversary none the less... and oh yeah Singapore took over as the financial center of Asia because the banking and financial system is regulated by the rule of law... you better get of youtube before they flag you and kick out of Shanghai. .. Go Hong Kong Go! Go Chinese people, we are one country, you should go to bed if you are not here to celebrate.

[@kennyli888]

@@jwychau I see a lot of people with your attitude that causes hatred in HK. Unable to carry a sensible logical conversation and start making uncivilized pointless comment to cover their inability to understand. Very uncivilized and you are a waste of time.

[@sirius5159]

Why don't the protesters of the U.S. abortion ban take the approach of the Hong Kong mob. The Second Amendment gives them the right to bear arms, but instead they just hold signs and shout.

[@deadtoy5360]

go back home wumao. Are you a Chinese prisoner forced to spread chinese propaganda?

[@overlordborn6131]

Because if they do they would be brutally suppressed like how they brutally crackdowned on BLM protest .

[@lorainejones41]

Because it is against our national security law. It's called the Patriot act and it is very strick. Plus local laws would charge you first then under the Patriot act. 2 sentences for breaking law.

[@wynn3077]

The CCP will send in criminal thugs to cause trouble again and then they will have another crackdown.

[@wulfw.8452]

u don't get it do u, US citizen are bunch of cowards when facing their own government/police because of police brutality yet they like to lecture other countries how they're the pinnace of democracy. US is not a democracy but an Oligarch's Republic.

[@briankim151]

disaster to honk kong 😭

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China and Russia

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live BRICS

[@briankim151]

@@heleneallane6444 Long LIVE NATOs and USA allies

[@khunagnes1364]

@@briankim151 LONG LIVE CHINA AND RUSSIA

[@khunagnes1364]

LONG LIVE BRICS

[@raucoussauce1528]

1st

[@andrew_lawrence]

(🇨🇳🇭🇰🇲🇴🇹🇼)

[@cumandia266]

💪💪👍👍

[@mps2495]

3rd