Mainland Chinese visitors are not returning to Hong Kong as much as expected, with cities across the border adding to the competition for tourists.
    • nekandro@lemmy.mlOP
      191·
      10 months ago

      Which, surely, explains why tourism in the rest of the Bay Area is shooting up?

        • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
          73·
          10 months ago

          yet the mainland china government had ordered that it be the only cuisine on offer. Lots of restauranteurs have been disappeared for offering anything different.

          Good lord, Western propaganda is always so transparently baseless, yet they lap it up anyway.

    • hangukdise@lemmy.ml
      102·
      10 months ago

      While there is a political component to it, the real issue is that the HKD is too strong now and the cost of touristing in HK is very visible.

          • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
            122·
            10 months ago

            True. The US massacred tens of thousands in Afghanistan only to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, and it looks like it is preparing to do the same in Yemen.

            It is awful and unforgivable. But the US is weakening itself with every decades-long and losing invasion it starts.

            • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
              101·
              10 months ago

              They already helped massacre tens of thousands in Yemen, as well as Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and so on. The USA is getting weaker, but as it does, the thirst for Chinese blood being displayed but the liberals swarming this thread will only get stronger.

              • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
                101·
                10 months ago

                Winning isn’t measured by who kills the most innocents. Otherwise the US would have won in Vietnam. The US is evidently and clearly in decline despite its military might.

                • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
                  92·
                  10 months ago

                  Oh I don’t think they’re winning anything, but they can still cause a lot of harm, as well as causing nuclear war.

    • spez_@lemmy.world
      86·
      10 months ago

      Hong Kong is a part of China. Always was, always will be Chinese land. The British Empire had failed, they stole the land but under Chinese might they ran away.

    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
      2476·
      10 months ago

      Hong Kong is free.

      Edit: lots of salt here for the decline of the British Empire, apparently.

          • JeepartN@lemmy.world
            56·
            10 months ago

            When i went there 2 weeks ago and the people i talk to end their sentences about the current situation by saying “Shhh”. I wouldnt consider that very free…

            • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
              1210·
              10 months ago

              Hong Kong is ethnically Chinese. And what exactly are you proposing, that every city should be an independent city state?

              • Shalakushka@kbin.social
                108·
                10 months ago

                That people who desire self determination should be able to have it, that they should not be expected to be ruled by whomever is most powerful and happens to be ethnically similar. I think states should be based on a shared history and philosophy rather than ethnically segregating them to suit China.

                • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
                  135·
                  10 months ago

                  That people who desire self determination should be able to have it, that they should not be expected to rule by whomever is most powerful and happens to be ethnically similar.

                  So you are proposing every city become a city state?

                  I think states should be based on a shared history and philosophy

                  Hong Kong does have a shared history and philosophy with China

                  rather than ethnically segregating them to suit China.

                  What are you even talking about at this point.