Donald Tsang is playing the card of Beijing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6233412.stm

Yes Linsi, thanks to you and others sources, I was wery at ease for this interview but as usual a little bit frustrated :not enough time to said all So with all my ducuments, I am thinking to write an article

But now I fell a little bit lasy for this kind of thing. I never ask for an interview or an paper, but I never said no when I am am asked for.

Maby these some media (radio and TV) made a big mistake, taking me for somebody else

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Maybe these some media (radio and TV) made a big mistake, taking me for somebody else :evil:

hahaha! you are too modest for that.

In the Far Eastern Economic Review, Friendrich Wu is not so optimistic about Hong Kong economic future
http://www.feer.com/articles1/2007/0706/p024.html

I used to live in Hong Kong from 1997 until 2000 - it was a great time in a great city. As a journalist covering the handover on July 1st 1997 was one of my best memories.

Personally I always used to view Hong Kong as having transferred from one colonial power to another. While the last British governor, Chris Patten, tried to rush some democratic reforms, over all the British had not done that much to promote democracy for the people of Hong Kong. Beijing, in this regard continued in pretty much the same way - as a colonial power.

I still think that is the right way to look at it. Hong Kong is more than anything else a Chinese colony. One reason for this is that the people of Hong Kong never were asked - neither by the British nor the Chinese - what they wanted for themselves.

That being said, the people of Hong Kong are pragmatic. They have adjusted to the situation and are making good money from their close association with their colonial masters in Beijing.

John

Thanks John for giving your point.

Here is an article on the main facts in Hong Kong in the last 10 years
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/features/ article_1320607.php/ Key_moments_since_Hong_Kong_returned_to_Chinese_rule

The very good Philip Bowring, on Asia Opinion, is giving a very good analysis of Hong Kong economic after ten years and its future.
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=560&Itemid=35

Here is just a list of facts on what Hong Kong has and hasn't changed.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/asia/hkchanges.php