Op-Ed: Get a Grip Hong Kongers!
High time someone from Hong Kong editorialized about the Hong Konger penchant to cast anything the mainland or the SAR government tries to do in bettering mainland-HK relations as tantamount to interference in HK affairs. The latest is the mainland’s offer of assistance with the ferry accident. It’s an humanitarian gesture, for heaven’s sake. Get a grip people!
Of course, the small groups of mainland-haters want HKSAR to drift as far away from the mainland as possible. They thought HK would be be a catastrophe after the handover. It wasn’t and prospered. Now that mainlanders are more affluent they resent their shopping which generates jobs in Hong Kong. They see the end of ‘one country, two systems’ as fast approaching, even though it is still 35 years away, and the trend toward complete reunification as terrible. Hence, their desperation to put everything in the anti-mainland light.
This commentary in the English-language Hong Kong Standard is refreshing: