Hong Kong's Sour Deal
An old song made the rounds in Hong Kong as World War II was ending, and it went like this: ”The fish will return to the ocean; The dog will have had his day; The hundred years are over; And the glory will fade away.” The song was predicting an end to British rule in Hong Kong, but reversion to China did not take place soon after the Communist Party ascended to power in the aftermath of the war. It wasn’t because of British invincibility — Hong Kong had fallen to the Japanese land invasion in just 17 days in 1942 — but because then-party chairman Mao Zedong did not wish for it to happen.
Hong Kong's Sour Deal by Thavam
China and Britain made a pact that's still undermining governance in the former colony.
- BY DALENA WRIGHT-OCTOBER 10, 2014
An old song made the rounds in Hong Kong as World War II was ending, and it went like this: ”The fish will return to the ocean; The dog will have had his day; The hundred years are over; And the glory will fade away.” The song was predicting an end to British rule in Hong Kong, but reversion to China did not take place soon after the Communist Party ascended to power in the aftermath of the war. It wasn’t because of British invincibility — Hong Kong had fallen to the Japanese land invasion in just 17 days in 1942 — but because then-party chairman Mao Zedong did not wish for it to happen.Hong Kong's Sour Deal by Thavam
