My TakeSex workers and the dead next targets of anti-China rallies?
- Protesters are doing all they can to keep mainlanders away from city by targeting sites from Tsim Sha Tsui to Disneyland and even seedy streets of Yau Tsim Mong
The latest estimate on tourism by HSBC must be music to the ears of anti-China activists. Hong Kong will have 350,000 fewer visitors from the mainland this year, according to the lender, after it revised down its growth forecast to 9 per cent from 9.7 per cent.
The bank’s analysts cited as a main cause the ongoing unrest stemming from the government’s extradition bill, declared dead by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.
Still, the drop may be too few for the hate-China crowds; there will still be 55-plus million mainland tourists coming our way.
But those groups are doing their best to keep mainlanders from coming, and kick out those already here.
The anti-extradition movement has morphed into a broader anti-China campaign. The recent mass rallies against buskers, mostly amateur female Chinese singers in Tuen Mun, and parallel mainland traders in Sheung Shui, are just the start of the so-called reclaim movement.
The idea is to “reclaim occupied spaces” in the 18 districts by rotating mass protests in coming weeks and months until the presence of mainlanders is eliminated or at least minimalised.