Comments on: Shanghai takes over from Hong Kong, part 9,481

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:40 +0000

Chanboy: If you feel that it is common in Hong Kong with ‘fluency in English and general international experience’ you better take another look around. I’m an exchange student in Hong Kong from Sweden and have spent only 7 months here but this is not the case generally. Neither professionally, at the barber’s or in the academic world.

Sadly, the most fluent English I have encountered in Hong Kong is from the maids and prostitutes originating from Indonesia and Philippines.

By: Chanboy

Chanboy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:56:40 +0000

Oh wait, do I detect nostalgia for the colonial days when you gweilos were the master? Sorry to break it to you, but those days are over. You can all move back to UK if you like, I’m sure everything is nice and swell there.

That of course dosen’t excuse the incompetence we see in the SAR gov. HK has to be it’s own master. We need our own voice and not be a mere puppet of UK, and now Beijing.

By: Chanboy

Chanboy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:40 +0000

No wonder HK is going down the drain, with you bunch of pathetic idiots. You morons actually think there is real lassie-faire in Hong Kong? Hello? The government controls the land here. The tycoons earns their billions from it. So there is no hope in Hong Kong after all.

By: Cecilie

Cecilie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:09:42 +0000

“This is partly due to the colonial era when the British did’nt encourage locals to any leadership position until just prior to the handover. ”

Oh yeah, that must be it. Blame the colonialists for making Hong Kong the sycophantic, “exists-solely-to-make-money-for- property developers” , “we-want-to -be-only -another (but inferior)-city-of-China” it is today.

The BRITISH set all that in motion! Nothing to do with the thrusting, forward-thinking, modern and hard-working current administration at all.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:50 +0000

It’s Cowperthwaite.

And we don’t need anybody, least of all from the blasted HK government, to “sell and market HK’s unique strengths”.

It would be best if these meddling buffoons would simply shut up and leave us alone.

By: Not Ted Thomas

Not Ted Thomas — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:26:16 +0000

I like the fact that there is no ‘leadership’ in HK. I, for one, do not need any ‘leader’ in my life. I can lead my own life, thank you.

When Coppletwaithe, or whatever his blessed name was, established “laissez faire” way back when, it was good. If only we can keep it that way (so let’s dump MPF, for starters).

By: Chanboy

Chanboy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:31:52 +0000

Another thing is the consistent failure of the SAR gov to sell and market Hong Kong’s unique strengths. More and more we are seen as merely just another Chinese city. Our independent legal system, fluency in English and general international experience is ignored time and again. This is something Shanghai knows how to do. Shanghai knows how to sell itself. How long will it take for the Hong Kong gov to wake up and be more aggressive? Is it because it is politically incorrect for HK to speak up? Is’nt it tell for the SAR gov to act in the interest and benefit of Hong Kong for a change?

By: Chanboy

Chanboy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:26:25 +0000

The problem is not Shanghai “supposed” surpassing of Hong Kong. The real problem is incompetent leadership. First with Tung, now with Tsang, Hong Kong severly lacks political leaders of vision and ability that can drive Hong Kong forward. This is partly due to the colonial era when the British did’nt encourage locals to any leadership position until just prior to the handover. More importantly, it’s down to the hamstrung political system which caters to the interest of tycoons instead of the citizen.

By: Historian

Historian — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:50:43 +0000

“One last thing: when did anyone last see a Hong Kong hooker in Shanghai?”

I dunno…when was the last time Donald Tsang was up there?