The city cannot rebound without reckoning with its recent past.
Move to make mainland travel easier for Hong Kong’s long-term foreign residents is welcome, but the city cannot rebound without reckoning with its recent past.
Even with these circumstances, my prognosis for the city has never been as dire as the now-infamous “Hong Kong is over” pronouncement by the US economist Stephen Roach. Non-Chinese permanent residents are typically foreigners who have lived in the territory for at least seven years. They also include Hong Kong’s various ethnic minorities who have been in the city for generations.
The biggest beneficiaries of the scheme will be Hong Kong’s permanent residents whose passports currently do not entitle them to visa-free travel to the mainland.Article 23: What you need to know about Hong Kong's new national security laws With the new scheme, “overseas friends can now enjoy the international lifestyle in Hong Kong while carrying out their business seamlessly in mainland China”, he wrote.
Officials, including Mr Xia Baolong, the director of the mainland agency responsible for Hong Kong, have in recent times said the “one country, two systems” framework will be kept permanently.
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