It won’t last for 10 years, come on. Think about it - why bother with cyber attacks or espionage if you can just smuggle in a vial of COVID-19 and release in a China that is closed off with no natural immunity? They will ruin the economy by staying sealed off which is a source of domestic political instability as well. And then there’s brain drain - overseas Chinese can’t go back home without 28 days quarantine so will be stewing in naughty foreign ideas for years on end, and may never come back.
If they keep this up beyond 2022 China is finished and we should all be packing our bags.
I am sorry but that is simply not true. There is only one way of dealing with Covid and that is by vaccination with effective vaccines. Australia, NZ, Songapore all tried the 0 covid approach and it failed. How do you envision less developed regions like parts of Africa, parts of South America, parts of Asia and parts of Europe to close down everything (Setting aside the economic nightmares)?
China can do this because there is a totalitarian regime, people are afraid to be caught, cameras, police, all are available in abundance to lock cities and regions down. Not so in the rest of the world.
By the time the CCP informed the world that there was a new coronavirus on the loose (after first frantically trying to hide the news) flocks of Chinese had already travelled everywhere in the world for business and pleasure. It only takes one case to create havoc.
Isolation is not a long term solution and closing down the world was never a viable option.
“world“ cities have an ability to generate large turnovers of people. methinks the new hongkongers you describe are going through a honeymoon period.Original Post Deleted
if fundamental problems in hong kong don't get fixed, the honeymoons are going to get shorter and shorter
when I was working for an American life insurance company in causeway bay in the mid 2000s, the fresh graduate hires would small talk during work for hours on end, and even went out together every other night. two of them even found their future spouse in the company
by the time their asia ops were sold to a Taiwanese company, nobody even noticed the fresh graduate hires of that year until over a month on the job
I'm about to leave. The apartment above and below me is empty. In soho. Coincidence maybe, or more?