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Micaella Flores
Vlog– (It has some technical difficulties, I am doing my best to correct it as much as possible) Sorry about this.
Micaella Flores
I think you pointed out a significant challenge in the current China and its relation to the globalization. Although China established their prestigious position in a global hierarchy differently from the West, now they are confronting the issue transforming their traditional state to modernized one from inside the system. It seemed very true for me that developing countries have to deal with this type of revolutionizing issue to meet the global standard, including my home country Japan.
Hong Kong is a pretty weird place, politically. In many ways, it is a vestige of Britain’s colonial past and has maintained an something of an uneasy relationship with Beijing. I think that it is important to make the distinction that what is happening now in Hong Kong does not necessary reflect on the mainland in the way that large-scale protests in Shanghai or Beijing would. Hong Kong has had a history of being more democratic, cosmopolitan, and global than most Chinese mainland cities. Still, of course, as China develops, it may be that it comes to look more like Hong Kong. This is not certain, though, which speaks to protesters’ concerns. Hong Kong does not want Hong Kong to look like mainland China.