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[cnleio]

我做皇帝时，就会支专制，搞一百奶，搞处女，采阴补阳。哈哈。然后去洗脑别人，说独裁多好多好

很显然，你不适合做皇帝，最多同北朝鲜金三世一个水平。

问一问李加坡的李二世，李家是如何统治好李加坡的？

 

[Jlaw]

实际上，不止香港，上海也是受害者。1952年的时候，上海的GDP是36.66亿元，北京是7.88亿元，上海是北京的4.65倍！萧何督建未央宫，刘邦抱怨太奢侈。萧何：天子四海为家，非壮丽无以重威。也就是说，首都不宏伟壮丽，不是第一大城市，皇帝会被人看轻，坏分子就容易造反。这就是传统中国的政治逻辑和城市伦理。

现在，全国城市整体上，尤其文化，学术全不及北京。北京人均GDP赢过上海。其实全中国在补贴北京。
Report: Hong Kong Becoming ‘Mere Second-Tier’ Chinese City

Report: Hong Kong Becoming ‘Mere Second-Tier’ Chinese City
The financial center’s specialness is in ever-greater danger.

Hong Kong is losing its edge as a global financial and commercial center, and the territory's economic clout will be overshadowed by China's major cities by 2022. That's the argument in an August 27 report released by Trigger Trend, an independent Chinese research firm based in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. The report emerged just days before Beijing declared it would not countenance open nominations in the planned 2017 popular election for Hong Kong's chief executive, and its findings are likely to stoke further anxiety about the former British colony's economic and political future.

In the wake of Beijing's decision, Hong Kong's democracy advocates now face a hard choice between carrying out what some have called a "nuclear option" to occupy the city's Central financial district en masse, which could disrupt businesses, or swallowing what they call a "fake election" for the Chief Executive, the head of Hong Kong's government. Either way, Beijing says it does not plan to yield to acts of civil disobedience in the special administrative region, even if protests make investors or business owners jittery.

Hong Kong's annual GDP growth rate has hovered around two percent in recent years, while major regional centers in China have been growing at over seven percent per year. Hong Kong's 2013 GDP, at an estimated $261 billion, already pales in comparison to Shanghai's, at $354 billion, and Beijing's, at $317 billion. The report also states that at the time of its handover from the British in 1997, Hong Kong's GDP was 15.6 percent of China's national total; by 2013, the city's share had shrunk to 2.9 percent.

Thanks to the pro democratic movement causing HK to tumble into a political nightmare. HK lost its competitive edge due to the fault of the HK people. Political instability is bad for business.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Hong Kong Billionaire Brothers To Give $350 Million To Harvard University - Forbes

Hong Kong real estate moguls Ronnie and Gerald Chan have pledged a $350 million gift to Harvard University through their charitable foundation, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson.

The gift is the largest in the institution’s history. The university will rename Harvard’s public health school in honor of the brothers’ father. FORBES currently estimates the duo, who run one of China’s commercial real estate giants, Hang Lung Group , to be worth a combined $3.2 billion.

That places them among some of Hong Kong’s wealthiest billionaires. The bulk of their fortune stems main from shares in publicly-traded Hang Lung, which was founded by their father in the 1960s. The brothers also run a private equity and venture capital firm, Morningside Group. Their stake in the Chinese smartphone-maker Xiaomi also helped rank them as the seventeenth richest in Hong Kong on FORBES 2014 list of Hong Kong’s 50 Richest in January with a net worth estimated at $2.95 billion.

English: Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ronnie Chan is the chairman of Hang Lung Group, and Gerald Chan sits on the company’s board.

Gerald Chan, who graduated from the school with a master’s degree in medical radiological physics and a PhD in radiation biology in the 1970s, also made headlines in March for buying properties around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., worth about $100 million.

Their Morningside Foundation, which is pledging the donation over an undisclosed period of time, had assets worth about $47 million according to the charitable organization’s 2011 tax forms, the most recent released.

The mega-donation will help fund the school’s work in pandemics (which will include obesity and cancer), harmful environments, poverty and humanitarian crises and struggling health systems. It’s one of the largest gifts to a higher education institution ever made, and is only beat by a handful of other historic donations, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education database.

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Harvard is on a roll with the Chinese donations.

 

[55100864]

I thought he is US citizen

 

[Jlaw]

It's his money, but I'm not surprised though. Most rich HK are not pro-Chinese. Most HK people I know are not pro-Chinese. Those that are just keep quiet.

 

[UnChosen]

It's his money, but I'm not surprised though. Most rich HK are not pro-Chinese. Most HK people I know are not pro-Chinese. Those that are just keep quiet.

It isn't any worse than the mainland Chinese billionaires, who always seem to have to make a huge show every time donate, if they are not being extremely stingy and never donate.

And here in North America we have our tax avoidance and religious spreading disguised as "donations".

Most truly charitable billionaires and millionaires usually just donate silently in the background and no one will know about it.

 

[Jlaw]

It isn't any worse than the mainland Chinese billionaires, who always seem to have to make a huge show every time donate, if they are not being extremely stingy and never donate.

And here in North America we have our tax avoidance and religious spreading disguised as "donations".

Most truly charitable billionaires and millionaires usually just donate silently in the background and no one will know about it.

Don't need to tell me about our "donations". I know it's for taxation purposes. The real donors are the ones who don't publicize it, rich or poor.

These guys who publicize it are fo show.

 

[Shishike]

我做皇帝时，就会支专制，搞一百奶，搞处女，采阴补阳。哈哈。然后去洗脑别人，说独裁多好多好

都一样，可惜所谓民主，也没进行民选提名啊，还不是2个大党各类出一堆和你完全没交集，甚至完全没看过的名字，让你选？你唯一做主的是写不同的名“字”，而实际上这样的权力，一个小学生都能行使，而对于这个政治人物除了宣传以外是个怎么样的人，是否会治理国家，是否有能力承担这个位子，除了宣传，选民朋友们也像小学生一样迷茫。

 

[Fukuoka]

Pro-Beijing activists scuffle with Hong Kong democracy supporters| Reuters

Former Civic Party lawmaker Tanya Chan (C) shaves her head during a protest to call for people to join them for an upcoming "Occupy Central" movement rally in Hong Kong September 9, 2014.

Pro-democracy activists shave their heads during a protest to call for people to join them for an upcoming "Occupy Central" movement rally in Hong Kong September 9, 2014.

Pro-democracy activists pose after shaving their heads during a protest to call for people to join them for an upcoming "Occupy Central" movement rally in Hong Kong September 9, 2014.

Founders of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement (from L to R) academic Chan Kin-man, academic Benny Tai and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming pose for pictures after shaving their heads during a protest to call for people to join them for an upcoming "Occupy Central" movement rally in Hong Kong September 9, 2014.

A pro-democracy protester carries a placard which reads ‘Communist Party, you lie!’ as he sits with other protesters during a campaign to kick off the Occupy Central civil disobedience event in front of the financial Central district in Hong Kong August 31, 2014.

China sends armoured carriers into Hong Kong Streets amidst democracy protests | China Daily Mail

 

[Genesis]

Now we are really scared, 11 super carriers by the US and the seventh fleet don't scare us, but a few shaved head is definitely more scary.

By the way, they need to take the ribbon off, the leadership might think they are shaving for cancer lol. Wrong message.

 

[AgentOrange]

Where was all this faux moral outrage when the Brits were in charge? Wait, I know, all of these self-loathing "protesters" were too busy begging for scraps from whites to be concerned with something *never* granted to them in 150+ years of British rule. And now they're suddenly brave when it's time to disrupt a government run by Chinese people.

In WW2, people like these were referred to as "hanjian" - race traitors. And both the Commies and Nationalists had a different kind of "shave" in store for captured hanjian who collaborated with foreign enemies. Fortunately, China is a much more civilized place now and these clowns are free to humiliate themselves for a few words of praise from their white masters.

 

[Aepsilons]

In WW2, people like these were referred to as "hanjian" - race traitors. And both the Commies and Nationalists had a different kind of "shave" in store for captured hanjian who collaborated with foreign enemies. Fortunately, China is a much more civilized place now and these clowns are free to humiliate themselves for a few words of praise from their white masters.

Why were people referred to as 'Hanjian' ? Where they cooperative with the Imperial Japanese Colonial Administration ? or did they enlist into the Imperial Army as reconnaissance specialists ?

 

[AgentOrange]

Why were people referred to as 'Hanjian' ? Where they cooperative with the Imperial Japanese Colonial Administration ? or did they enlist into the Imperial Army as reconnaissance specialists ?

Hanjian basically means "race traitor" and the term referred to collaborators of all stripes who aided the enemy against their own country.

 

[thesolar65]

Thousands of students in Hong Kong have converged on a university campus to begin a week-long boycott of classes.

They are protesting against China's stance on electoral reform in the territory. Students from more than two dozen institutions are taking part.

It is a prelude to a larger protest on 1 October planned by pro-democracy group Occupy Central.

Beijing has rejected open nominations for the city's leadership poll, dashing hopes of those seeking full democracy.

The boycott saw thousands of students gathering at 14:00 local time (07:00 BST) for a sit-in at the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus in Sha Tin, several kilometres north of the city centre.

Most are wearing white T-shirts with yellow ribbons - a colour adopted by pro-democracy activists.

The boycott is being organised by groups such as the Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism.

Student activists are also organising a series of rallies and public lectures in a park near government offices later in the week.

RTHK reported that teenage activists were standing outside secondary schools early on Monday morning, distributing yellow ribbons to students arriving for class and urging them to join the boycott.

About 400 academics and non-teaching staff are also taking part in support of the students, according to the South China Morning Post.
Juliana Liu, BBC News, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Federation of Students said that about 13,000 students had gathered for the start of the boycott. The mood was defiant.

The last time students in Hong Kong engaged in such a large-scale protest was in 2012, when they successfully argued against the implementation of national and moral education, which some critics said was a form of brainwashing.

Two years ago, the Hong Kong government gave in. But this time, the main target of their strike, the Chinese government in Beijing, is unlikely to be as accommodating.

The students also sent a letter to the current chief executive CY Leung, blaming him, in part, for Beijing's tough requirements for election candidates.

They said Mr Leung had "no excuse" for absolving himself from the proposal announced by the Chinese government.

Campaign ahead
A larger pro-democracy protest is due to take place next month. Occupy Central has pledged to stage a sit-in at Hong Kong's financial district, which critics have said may shut down the area.

The issue of how Hong Kong can choose its leader gripped the city in recent months, sparking protests from both the pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps.

The Chinese government has promised direct elections for Hong Kong's leader, the chief executive, by 2017.

But in August, it ruled that voters would only have a choice from a list of two or three candidates selected by a nominating committee.

Democracy activists say China will use this committee to screen out candidates it disapproves of.

Pro-Beijing activists, meanwhile, believe the other camp is disrupting Hong Kong's peace and stability.

The protesting students say Beijing's decision does not amount to the greater democracy Hong Kong was promised when it was handed back from Britain to China in 1997.

But the BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie says the communist leadership in Beijing is turning firmly against ideas of political reform at home and has no interest in encouraging noisy critics.

 

[Kolaps]

This is TRUE democracy!

Just like DPP and Sunflower movement in Taiwan.


HK silent majority or Taiwan last public election are not democracy!