I used to live in Hong Kong and returned in March for another wonderful holiday.
On our departure, on Saturday, March 30, my wife and I were driven from our hotel to the Airport Express in Central.
In all my years of living in Hong Kong, this was the first time I had seen Central, the financial hub of Hong Kong, the centre of what used to be Asia's most vibrant city, looking like a ghost town, with only a handful of people on the streets, and even fewer cars. Our spirits further sank when we read in the South China Morning Post of 260,000 people joining the Easter exodus to the mainland. We have never left Hong Kong with such a heavy heart.
In the last few years, whenever we came to the city, the evitable question would be, 'Did you go shopping in Shenzhen?' Our answer was no, we had never been to Shenzhen.
We have always supported Hong Kong's economy, even if we do pay that few dollars more.
No matter how often we are being told that Hong Kong and China are now one, don't people in Hong Kong want to support their own businesses? Have they become so short-sighted that they have given up on their own future? If no one shops in Hong Kong, if no one eats in its restaurants, who is going to give them the jobs that allow them to continue spending?
