Hong Kong rails against invasion of Chinese ‘locusts’

Earlier this week, Hong Kong’s government bowed to anger over the issue and
cut the quota of mainland mothers allowed to give birth each year from
10,000 to 3,400. Next year, they may be barred completely.

But “birth tourists” are just one of the many reasons for the
increasingly bitter war of words between Hong Kong’s 7 million residents and
the 1.3 billion people in China. Hong Kongers resent the way mainland
immigrants have pushed up property prices and regard tourists from China as
uncouth.

In turn, mainlanders view Hong Kongers as overly superior and patronising.

When a video of locals arguing with Chinese tourists who were eating on the
Hong Kong subway went viral last week, a Peking University professor
lambasted Hong Kongers as “b——-“, “thieves” and “dogs
of British imperialists”.

A vast cultural divide continues to separate Hong Kong, which prides itself on
its legitimate entrepreneurial energy, independent legal system and freedom
of speech, from the corrupt economic free-for-all and repressive rule that
characterises the communist-run mainland.

Reunification in 1997 after 155 years as a British colony was supposed to draw
Hong Kong close into the embrace of the motherland. But a University of Hong
Kong survey in December revealed that the number of Hong Kong residents
identifying themselves as Chinese had sunk to a 12-year low.

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