My Take | Mainland migrants needed to counter ageing population
- Plan proposed by Sun Hung Kai Properties boss Adam Kwok Kai-fai to reduce mainland immigration would have wide local appeal but is politically impossible and demographically unwise
Yet, it would be popular with Hong Kong people, as Kwok, executive director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, has suggested.
His idea, as presented to the Guangdong Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, would help ease cross-border tensions. But why stop there?
Why not just ban mainlanders from visiting or living in the city? If you offer that as a real choice, the vast majority within the anti-government protest movement and their supporters would take it in place of universal suffrage.
After all, some of the rallying cries of our protesters and rioters have been “Reclaim Hong Kong” and “Hong Kong is not China” as they wave British and American flags.
What most foreigners don’t appreciate or refuse to acknowledge is the depths of hatred and resentment within the protest movement and the larger public against all things Chinese, not just the Chinese communist government.