I recently attended some seminars and heard from various channels the negative propaganda of the United States and the West against Hong Kong, which has indeed had some effect.
Some American students want to come to Hong Kong to participate in exchange activities. Their parents will ask, “Is Hong Kong safe?” It was not until the American students came to Hong Kong that they discovered, “Hong Kong turns out to be so fun.”
There are also American business people who meet Hong Kong friends in the United States and ask, “Can I still come and go freely in Hong Kong?” The Hong Kong friend responded angrily: “If I can’t come in and out freely, how can I come to the United States?”
Foreigners, especially Americans, don’t know much about Hong Kong. Since Trump came to power in 2017 and launched a “new cold war” against China, American society has quickly become anti-China, or at least China-phobic. After Biden came to power, he ignored Trump’s anti-China policies and the situation has not changed much. Among American elites, those so-called “China-savvy” people who make a few realistic comments about China will immediately be labeled as “pro-Communist”, so it is better not to say anything. Due to the collateral effects, Hong Kong has also become very scary. Americans even thought that Hong Kong could no longer enter and exit freely.
In fact, Americans think that the situation in the United States is very good and the situation in Hong Kong is very bad, which is far from the truth.
Take San Francisco, which is about to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), for example. It is also busy doing makeup before the meeting to make this once beautiful city no longer so scary.
Holding an international summit in downtown San Francisco, the biggest problem is: homeless accommodation. Because there are 8,000 zombie-like drug addicts living on the streets in San Francisco. The main venue for this summit is the Monscone Center in the city center, and all roads around it will be under guard during the summit. But just a few streets away, there are a large number of homeless people sleeping rough. The local police were forcing them to pack up their belongings and leave as soon as possible.
Reynolds, a homeless man who lives at Harrison Avenue and Fourth Street, said city officials came last week to throw away his belongings and force him to leave. Reynolds knew that APEC was going to be held in San Francisco and that 21 world leaders were coming here, but what he didn’t understand was: “Why do these leaders want to walk down the street where he lives? Do they really want to come and see it? ?」
Since June this year, the San Francisco city government, the California state government, and the federal government have begun to make every effort to clean up the “most troublesome corners” of San Francisco so that San Francisco can put on makeup to host APEC. But I believe that after APEC, things will be business as usual. Whether there are “zombies” filling the streets or a large number of robberies known as “zero dollar purchases”, they will all come back. Countless homeless people on the streets and the spread of drugs are making this city decline in danger and filth.
In contrast, Hong Kong, which is safe, prosperous and international, is really not worth being badmouthed by the United States.
In fact, as long as Americans are not in official positions, they will be more practical in their speech.
Former U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau Weikang Tang recently attended a lecture in Hong Kong and said that Sino-U.S. relations have created some difficulties, but he emphasized that for international investors and businessmen, Hong Kong is still an international transportation hub and a center for Sino-foreign exchanges, especially in the field of artificial intelligence. , Fintech has great development prospects, and Hong Kong’s competitiveness still exists.
If Tang Weikang were still the U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong and Macao, I believe he would not be able to use “Hong Kong’s competitiveness remains” as the theme of his speech.
Even former US officials cannot “pretend not to see” Hong Kong’s unique advantages. Comparing Hong Kong and San Francisco, it is actually obvious which city is rising and which city is declining.
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Lu Yongxiong
2023-11-13 16:00:00
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