Monday, April 20, 2009

Jackie Chan Says Chinese Need Control (NYT, 4/19/09)

The China/HK government allows 150 Mainland Chinese to enter HK with residence status each day (55K/yr). Of course, many more would like to enter, but are turned away. 

If the government removed the daily limit, or dramatically increased it to meet demand, what would happen to/in HK? 

What if they don't remove/increase the limit? 

In the news yesterday, action film star Jackie Chan (born in HK) said:  “I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not,” The Associated Press reported. He also said: “I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”

At some point, will there be a rush on this city? 
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. KerstinApril 21, 2009 at 4:41 AM

    Hi John, greetings from China too! I am curious to see what you think of mainland China.

    ReplyDelete
  2. userXApril 21, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    It'd be interesting to know more about the selection process for HK residency - both de jure, and de facto.
    Re the Jackie quote: Interesting use of the first person plural. I wonder whether this includes the first person singular?!... I suspect not.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)