My Take | HK opposition will rue the day they turned to Washington for help
- As part of its containment policy against China, the US has effectively turned the city into another chess piece like Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang in its great power game
There are two powerful developments working against Hong Kong – one domestic and the other foreign. Unless things change drastically, they will not lead to a happy ending for the city.
The first one, as I said yesterday, is the increasing difficulty, if not impossibility, of Hong Kong and the mainland reaching an understanding to allow us to continue our way of life after 2047.
You can blame the Communist Party, the Hong Kong government, the anti-government protest movement and its misguided youths, the pan-democratic opposition or even foreign forces. But whether you are blue, yellow or something in between, it is what it is.
In the worst-case scenario, Hong Kong will become a municipality of Greater Shenzhen.
The other is that Hong Kong’s democracy movement is officially a pawn in the great power struggle of the United States against China.
Once Washington passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act last year, it effectively declared the city part of its China containment policy and turned it into a chess piece like Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang.
