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By the way, great to see the Hong Kong Free Press on the HN front page. It's an independent, non-profit newspaper financed primarily by reader donations. Hong
by FabHK 8y ago
By the way, great to see the Hong Kong Free Press on the HN front page. It's an independent, non-profit newspaper financed primarily by reader donations.
Hong Kong has basically only 3 English-language newspapers left: South China Morning Post ([1], since 1903, but now owned by the mainland Alibaba group), The Standard ([2], free, ad-financed), and HKFP.
Given the encroaching Chinese influence on HK (contra the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the "One Country, Two Systems" principle [3], which specify wide ranging autonomy of HK on internal matters until 2047), a free press in HK is enormously important to safeguard HK's freedoms.
(If you care about it, please support the HK Free Press! (I'm not affiliated.) Here:)
https://www.hongkongfp.com/support-hong-kong-free-press-2019-hk1-2m-funding-drive/ https://www.hongkongfp.com/support-hong-kong-free-press-2019...
[1] https://www.scmp.com https://www.scmp.com
[2] http://www.thestandard.com.hk http://www.thestandard.com.hk
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
EDIT: typos, add "One Country, Two Systems"
- jplayer01 8y agoUh, wait. What happens in 2047? Is HK screwed then?
- FabHK 8y agoIt reverts wholly to China, and becomes a Chinese city like any other. No more separate economic system, political system, currency, immigration, press, etc. But China is basically pre-empting that by gradually tightening the screws already. One of the factors (together with massive inequality and diminishing economic opportunities) leading to the 2014 umbrella protests.