Three days ago Moody's downgraded Hong Kong's sovereign credit rating on the ground that Hong Kong government's governance is lower than previously estimated mainly due to its inability to resolve the already seven months long yet on-going civil unrest. Probably it is a coincidence or may be not, however, Carrie Lam's administration demonstrates another governance crisis amid the brink of an outbreak of pandemic, the Wuhan coronavirus.
Apparently the Hong Kong government lags behind in coping with the ever-evolving possible pandemic. In his speech two days ago, the Chief Secretary, Matthew Cheung, explained why health declaration is not implemented upon the passengers from the Express Rail trains coming from China that the process could build up blocks of people in the arrival hall while the gathering of people could even facilitate the transmission of virus, if there is any asymptomatic vector among the crowd. It is really unbelievable that the second to Chief Executive in the Hong Kong government would say such nonsense as the explanation on the public health policy.
Cheung's nonsense logic lies on when there is no asymptomatic carrier among the crowds then the worry on the possible virus transmission is unnecessary. However, if there is really one, Cheung seems to prefer avoiding the infection among the people from the train but to release the patient to the public without any clue to trace his/her whereabout which will cause a much wider scale of spreading in the community.
Fallacy, especially from such a high ranking official, does undermine confidence not only from Hong Kong citizen to the Administration's governance but also that from the stake holders including foreign investors. This nonsense logic just further strengthens the justification on Moody's downgrading.
On the other hand people can't help but just wonder why these once elites now turn out to be idiots. Apparently there is nothing wrong in their brains but just in their mentality. They just tuned their gesture in-line with what the Mainland China is posing. When Cheung said the nonsense the Mainland China's related authority was still trying to tone-down the situation. These elite officials are just too smart to play safe by keeping the same tune with that from the north or even avoid the possible perception of offend perceived by the Mainland counterpart.
Amid the ever-growing integration with China, it seems the Hong Kong administration is in a kind of self-dwarfed position when dealing with their counterpart in the Mainland China. This kind of self-imposed limitation is literally a castration on the doctrine of Hong Kong People ruling Hong Kong and just showcases the deterioration on the another doctrine of One Country, Two Systems.
Deng Xiaoping once made his prophecy saying that there is possibility that the main culprit of undermining the One Country, Two Systems comes within Hong Kong. It seems his prediction really came true but sadly, Deng might has never expected that it is the Hong Kong government itself!
2020年1月23日 星期四
2020年1月12日 星期日
Life without hope is no different from a salted fish
The title of this post came from the line in one of the productions by the once very popular Hong Kong comedian actor, Stephen Chow. Chow's most famous films are seen as the classical comedy during his heyday era. Unfortunately most of the people, especially among the youth, here in Hong Kong could experience what this expression is all about now.
Finally the once raged social turmoil arising from the extradition bill has subsided much now. Livelihood started to resume to normal despite of the on and off activities in different forms. However, lives of most Hong Kong people are never the same again. Apart from that the society is further divided, to many of the residents in this island Hong Kong has changed much. Police became brutality, white fear lingering in the air, the once friends became opponents, a travel city became a forbidden city, last but not least the "one country two systems" has proven to be a failure here in Hong Kong. The idea of this advocate is once the hope of the seven millions plus islander's hope on the exemption of the life style across the border, at least till 2047. The six months long social activity has poked this balloon of hope.
At the beginning of this social movement some people attributed the wealth gap between the haves and the don't and the housing shortage. It is true that these are the deep-seated problems bothering Hong Kong in this decade but this is not uncommon in neigbouring countries or even in some developed ones. The participants of this movement are consisted of young people or even teenage, especially at the middle to the latest stages. As and when the confrontation develops, this young segment of the population suddenly realized that the once baby step eroding promise on the two systems came to the brink of the bursting. Changing from rule by law to rule of will is just one step away. They anticipated what life will be like after, or even just approaching 2047 when is going to be their prime time if things keep going like what it is now. So they rose to fight. They fought for their future. A future free from fear.
There were also pro-government or Beijing rallies amid the much larger scale counterpart. The interesting thing was that the participants of these pro-government activities were mainly middle to old aged who are most probably the haves of the wealth gap spectrum or those who will enter into their elderly stage when 2047 arrives. The whether or not on the existence of hope does not matter much comparing to their youth counterpart. The result of the recent Taiwan presidential election tallies the preference of the expectation on hope in life between the old and young. Taiwanese young people voted Tsai to demonstrate their resistance to China and her ambition of imposing the One Country Two Systems onto Taiwan. Young people across the strait did the different things but for the same motive.
They want a life with hope, but not a salted fish.
Finally the once raged social turmoil arising from the extradition bill has subsided much now. Livelihood started to resume to normal despite of the on and off activities in different forms. However, lives of most Hong Kong people are never the same again. Apart from that the society is further divided, to many of the residents in this island Hong Kong has changed much. Police became brutality, white fear lingering in the air, the once friends became opponents, a travel city became a forbidden city, last but not least the "one country two systems" has proven to be a failure here in Hong Kong. The idea of this advocate is once the hope of the seven millions plus islander's hope on the exemption of the life style across the border, at least till 2047. The six months long social activity has poked this balloon of hope.
At the beginning of this social movement some people attributed the wealth gap between the haves and the don't and the housing shortage. It is true that these are the deep-seated problems bothering Hong Kong in this decade but this is not uncommon in neigbouring countries or even in some developed ones. The participants of this movement are consisted of young people or even teenage, especially at the middle to the latest stages. As and when the confrontation develops, this young segment of the population suddenly realized that the once baby step eroding promise on the two systems came to the brink of the bursting. Changing from rule by law to rule of will is just one step away. They anticipated what life will be like after, or even just approaching 2047 when is going to be their prime time if things keep going like what it is now. So they rose to fight. They fought for their future. A future free from fear.
There were also pro-government or Beijing rallies amid the much larger scale counterpart. The interesting thing was that the participants of these pro-government activities were mainly middle to old aged who are most probably the haves of the wealth gap spectrum or those who will enter into their elderly stage when 2047 arrives. The whether or not on the existence of hope does not matter much comparing to their youth counterpart. The result of the recent Taiwan presidential election tallies the preference of the expectation on hope in life between the old and young. Taiwanese young people voted Tsai to demonstrate their resistance to China and her ambition of imposing the One Country Two Systems onto Taiwan. Young people across the strait did the different things but for the same motive.
They want a life with hope, but not a salted fish.
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