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Trust Issues: Hong Kong Resists Beijing’s Advances

Sebastian Veg, Trust Issues: Hong Kong Resists Beijing’s Advances, 10.15.13

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Protestors hold candles aloft in front of a large poster of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during a vigil in Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2012, marking the twenty-third anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

When Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, expectations were high—in Beijing and among the pro-mainland forces in Hong Kong—that identification with the Chinese nation would slowly but surely strengthen among the local population, especially among the younger generations, eventually solving the problem of Hong Kong’s full integration into China. Once the colonial education system ceased poisoning young minds, it was thought, future generations would embrace the worldview and politics favored in Beijing. However, sixteen years later the situation is very different. It is precisely the younger generations, the ones educated after the handover, who are most hostile to the mainland and its local advocates. A June 2013 poll, the latest in a series released every six months, shows that identification with Hong Kong has even increased since the handover: today, 62% of the population identify primarily with Hong Kong and 38% exclusively. More surprisingly, the proportion is 84.3% among the eighteen to twenty-nine age group (of which 55.8% identify exclusively with Hong Kong).

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Jacqueline Nivard
Jacqueline Nivard
Jacqueline Nivard, Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

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Jacqueline Nivard (30 septembre 2014). Trust Issues: Hong Kong Resists Beijing’s Advances. . Consulté le 6 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mev1


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