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The Hongcouver | 20 years after handover, has the Hong Kong experiment failed? From Vancouver, it can look that way
Hong Kong immigrants in Vancouver take a grim view of the SAR – and some see parallels in the growing influence of mainland Chinese money on their Canadian home city
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Ian Youngin Vancouver
“The identity of Hong Kong ... everything will disappear” Anthony Chan
“One country, two systems is now gone.” Fenella Sung
“Look at Hong Kong ... it’s a shell of what it was.” Geoffrey Ho
“Mr 689 ... He broke the system, the values of Hong Kong.” Albert Ng
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Twenty years after the Hong Kong handover, the mood in Vancouver is far from celebratory for some of the city’s dwindling population of HK-born residents.
Is their decidedly grim view across the Pacific clouded by a subconscious effort to reinforce the correctness of their choice of home?
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