Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China
How Hong Kong can be gateway to liberal values when it itself cannot be liberal enough to reconcile with the fact that everyone in Hong Kong is a Chinese citizen (except few permanent residents) following Chinese nationality law. Unless it cannot be liberal enough to acknowledge it&#x27;s true state how can it serve as an example to others.<p>For people who lived in Hong Kong before 1997 and after it Hong Kong people (except the discriminated groups) discrimated openly people from China and other parts of Asia except Japan. If they happen to seat in MTR, the Hong Kong person will not seat next to them even, deny them jobs due to ethnocity. Indeed in some cases they run full page ads against them openly without repurcussions, which might result in a severe punishment in UK in the form of libel laws, in USA in the firm of racial discrimination.<p>There are no laws against racial discrimination or discrimation based on color in Hong Kong. There is a small toothless organization trying to show as if they care.<p>This is laughable by the economist to even think Hong Kong can ever be an example of liberal values to Chinese in China who did not treat people from other parts of Asia with open contempt like in Hong Kong.<p>Again as it is a minority view I know it will be downvoted, but for people who lived there know the truth.