As the "celebrations" of Hong Kongs handover to the Chinese end and the SMCP stops banging on about how good it was 10 years ago and thank goodness that they have been keeping a journalistic eye on everything I began to wonder if things would have been different if the UK had handed HK to the Americans instead of China.
Ludicrous thought? I think not. Lets face it we have lost our dignity to our so called "ally" so much in the recent few years (think Afghanistan/Iraq/probably Iran and even France in the future) that we might as well have signed over Hong Kong to the Yanks and have been done with it.
Can you imagine what would have happened (other than pissing off about a billion people, still didn't stop Tony and Gerorge W in the Middle East!)
Imagine...
Star ferry: Renamed "freedom" ferry
HK dollar: Now truly an American dollar
Road signs: All changed from Chinese & English to American English & English
Business dress code: Shorts, white socks and baseball caps
Wanchai: Re-named: Wansville
Chinese noodles: Replaced with MacDonalds outlets (oh wait, that happened under the Chinese anyway)
So there you go. 10 years ago we should have handed over HK to the Americans as we can't seem to do anything without their permission anyway.
Written on Monday 16 July 2007 by ali bullock
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18 July 2007 at 15:47
How about the drinking age - moved from HK's 18 to America's 21 - that would piss of all those kids at International Schools
19 July 2007 at 07:58
Paul, you are right - That should and would (I suspect) make the list...
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