I lived five years in HK, leaving in 2022. It was over around 2019, when the protests hit. It is quite impressive how the Chinese government was able to single-

I lived five years in HK, leaving in 2022. It was over around 2019, when the protests hit. It is quite impressive how the Chinese government was able to single-handedly remove all character from one of the world's most vibrant, interesting cities, and turn it into another regular, boring, tightly-controlled Tier 1 Chinese mainland city within the space of a few months.