Hong Kong warns Wall Street Journal of 'incitement' in editorial

Comes as China's ruling Communist Party transforms the business hub into something more closely resembling the authoritarian mainland.

i.e. A business hub which has thrown off the yoke of imperialist dictatorship completely. A comfortable majority of residents support this process but the last vestige of imperialist filth can't be written off completely just yet.

Just wait, over the next decade or so, maybe sooner, Hong Kong is going to be a shadow of it's old self.

i.e. A business hub which has thrown off the yoke of imperialist dictatorship completely. A comfortable majority of residents support this process but the last vestige of imperialist filth can't be written off completely just yet.

It would astound me if anyone chose to interpret the situation in this way. But from you it’s to be expected I suppose.

Hong Kong - terror state with a murderous, corrupt Commie gov't. Any foreign business still operating there deserves all the trouble they get.

Any foreign business still operating there deserves all the trouble they get.

What do you think happens to the economy if those foreign companies leave?

Hong Kong - terror state with a murderous, corrupt Commie gov't.

Hong Kong is not a terror state, and you should be trying to support its people instead of abandoning them. They did not chose their masters.

One more reason to never go to china, as if I would spend ¥10 to do that

Only to be expected from fascist China! Everyone should boycott all elections in HK!

They did not chose their masters.

I disagree - most locals couldn’t wait to be rid of the British & become part of China again.

Be careful what you wish for

Twenty of the 90 legislature seats up for grabs are directly elected -- down from half.

What's the point of voting when your vote only counts for 20 out of 90 in the legislature

I disagree - most locals couldn’t wait to be rid of the British & become part of China again.

Absolutely wrong. Do you think that 'most locals' wished to give up local autonomy to Beijing? Do you think that they wanted the Sino-British agreement to be torn up?

You have no idea what the people of HK want. They want the freedom that has made them prosperous, educated and civilized. This has gone in the last 12 months. At least the British didn't have to eliminate the people for speaking out. It's incomparable.

I disagree - most locals couldn’t wait to be rid of the British & become part of China again.

You cannot possibly know any actual people from Hong Kong to write something like that. I seem to remember one of the common saying in Hong Kong before the crack down was "Hong Kong is not China". Now people are fleeing Hong Kong to get away from the mainland Chinese and their miserable form of "government".

Hong Kongers hate mainlanders so thoroughly that even outside of China, when we encounter Cantonese speaking business owners and employees the pick up on my wife's Shanghai accent (even in English) and once they figure out she is a mainlander they refuse us service. It has happened to us many times. Then there was the Vietnamese merchant who summarily threw her out of his business when she tried to haggle price. You have no idea how much mainland Chinese are hated because of the policies of their government.

I suppose this will be the end of the WSJ in China. They will be lucky if nobody is arrested. I would not be surprised if the CCP had Interpol issue red notices for WSJ executives in the US, making their foreign travel dangerous. One has to wonder how long Bloomberg will last there?

ooheysnewDec. 6 08:46 pm JST

They did not chose their masters.

I disagree - most locals couldn’t wait to be rid of the British & become part of China again.

The last mostly "free" election gave the pro democrats 70% of the seats, this is what HKers want. Beijing is not going to make the same mistake twice.

Beijing is not going to make the same mistake twice.

Will not allow the citizens to have the govt they actually want.