One concern about the return to Chinese sovereignty is that all things British will be considered taboo, an unwelcome reminder of the colonial past.
It is, of course, right and proper that the British influence in Hong Kong be put in its place.
Yet by doing so too hastily and too indiscriminately there is the risk in the English-language media especially - particularly television - that the influence will come, even more increasingly, not from the motherland but from across the Pacific.
Already RTHK has decided The Archers, the BBC's long-running radio show set in a farming community, is not politically correct. This is an extreme example, appealing as it certainly does to only a very peculiar sort of British expat, but it is, surely, an indication of the way things could go.
Anything British, TV shows et al, may be considered too much a reminder of the empire; anything American, goodness forbid, an indication of the way forward.
World and Pearl are already dominated by American television shows. What little British drama and comedy is screened is always lapped up by viewers - both Chinese and expatriate - yet we still see little of it.
