Watching the vote count in the U.S. presidential election last week in Hong Kong with friends, foreign correspondents, political activists and worried Americans at the Foreign Correspondents Club, while exchanging messages and phone calls with politicos in the U.S., I realized that Americans and Hongkongers are in the same political hotpot, with fused electors.
The American president is elected by electors in the Electoral College, and the Chief Executive of Hong Kong is elected by an Electoral Committee.
Hongkongers were just as divided as Americans about who they wanted to win. Ironically, the make-up of each camp was the mirror opposite of their counterparts in the U.S.
Young political activists in Hong Kong, unlike their contemporaries in the U.S., want Trump re-elected so that he can continue putting pressure on China, while older conservative business people, unlike their American counterparts, want to see Biden win in the hope that business tensions between the U.S. and China can subside and get back to business as usual.
Trumper Joseph Lam Chock, an Oxford graduate, former barrister and insurance executive, streaked naked at midnight as he promised to do if Trump failed to get re-elected.
Biden has referred to President Xi Jinping as a “thug” and promised to lead an international campaign to “pressure, isolate and punish China” and labelled China’s actions against Muslims in Xinjiang “genocide.”
Hong Kong is the meat in the U.S.-China trade war sandwich — and paying a heavy price for the privilege. On the political front, Beijing is restraining political freedoms, activities and activism on the street and Legco, while on the economic front, the U.S. is imposing sanctions and labelling demands that no longer distinguish Hong Kong from China.
In my book Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder, Chapter 2, Empires and Leftovers – Hong Kong Melting Pot, I address the fact that both America and Hong Kong are former colonies of a former British parent that have developed on parallel tracks.
“The rebellious American colonies came of age during a time when the fastest mode of transport and communication was the horse. Hong Kong, the older subservient territory, power-surged at the sunset of the Second Millennium when the quickest mode of communication was the Internet and the preferred mode of transport, jet planes.”
“Both America and Hong Kong are melting pots of people, culture and civilizations….”
The similarities and differences were on full display during the U.S. presidential election. In all my 30 plus years in Hong Kong, this U.S. election is the first one Hongkongers were following just as anxiously and nervously as Americans.
Americans in Hong Kong and Hongkongers are not only divided about the political path Hong Kong is on, but America. America and Hong Kong are at a political crossroad – heading in different directions for now – a prelude to the reshaping of the New World Disorder.
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