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How do you think the Chinese Government will respond to the Hong Kong protests (2019)?The Chinese government won’t do a thing unless there’s a bloodbath on the streets.If you actually take the time to do some rudimentary research on Hong Kong’s structure, you will see that, in essence, Hong Kong is a Joint Venture of the UK and China, with the Local Tycoons (most of whom are citizens of UK and/or Canada) being the Management Team. This structure was outlined in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, and subsequently legalized into the Basic Law of Hong Kong in 1997, when the sovereignty of HK was handed over to PRC. So how much do you think China will stick her neck out to safeguard the British and the Canadian money? I think they might be willing to risk a little sliver of her nail on her little pinky finger, but that’s about it.In 1984, when China was negotiating with the UK about the return of Hong Kong, and with Portugal about the return of Macao, the GDP of Hong Kong, with a population of 4 million, was about $34 billion USD. China mainland, with a population of 1 billion, had a GDP of about $260 billion. So HK alone was generating about as much as 15% of the GDP of China. Naturally the Chinese leadership considered themselves as very much the humble student, eager to learn all the great things Hong Kong has to offer, and fearful that they would ruin the place with their ineptitude. So China’s negotiation with the UK was in no way “just pack your bag and get out!” but more like “I must have the place back, but I also want/need to have your expertise with running the place.”So Hong Kong was essentially set up as a “joint venture” of the UK and China, with the local tycoons as the “management team”.Hong Kong’s sovereignty went to China.Tertiary education are all in English, with English textbooks and foreign professors. Not in Mandarin. Nor in Cantonese that the Hong Kong locals speak .The Hong Kong Legal system is entirely controlled by the British. 12 out of the 14 highest court of appeals judges are British Commonwealth citizens, not Chinese. The Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar association is a Brit trained in Lincoln's Inn. Hong Kong Bar AssociationThe Hong Kong financial system is entirely “walled-off” from China - different currency, central bank, tax laws, etc. All of these are codified into Hong Kong’s mini-constitution called the “Basic Law”. HSBC is the biggest bank in Hong Kong. Shanghai contributed a ton of tax money to help develop the poor interior provinces of China. Hong Kong, not a cent.The richest and the most influential Hong Kong tycoon is Li Ka-shing, a Canadian citizen living in the UK.The Legislature (which is staffed by Hong Kong tycoons’ pets) and the Chief Executive (who used to be appointed by Westminster) were all set up exactly the same way as under the UK, except now the CE is an elected position, and Beijing can veto a CE candidate if s/he is deemed to be entirely unacceptable.Strict border control and visa regime between Hong Kong and PRC.This is the simple fact. All these are encoded into the Basic Law and can not be changed until 2047. Frankly, the Iraqis literally got more “freedom” from the Americans after the occupation than the Hong Kong Chinese from the British. LOL. At least today the Iraqi universities don’t speak in English only, the Iraqi supreme court doesn’t have 90% of its judges being Americans, and the richest Iraqi is not an American! This is worse than the unconditionally surrendered Germans and the Japanese after WWII.Jokes aside, this situation was at most 30% a China-London influence thing, and 70% the local tycoon’s own doing. They wanted this. You see, both London and Beijing ended up having to put up with the tycoons, because they are the ones who can make new, constructive things happen. Those poor students, they can smash things up, but can they build something, such as finding a bed for the poor people to sleep at night? educating the poor so that they can have a future? Help your fellow students to get a job after graduation? Anything? Sigh. You see, this is why the Church can have long-term, loyal followings, and the Hong Kong students can’t. They don’t offer anything to people in need. The tycoons can. This is something the students need to provide if they want to become a viable political power. Well, there were twitter images of somebody provided truckloads of hardhats and face masks to the students for them to go trash the LegCo building with. Then what? What about food, clothing, and abode that people need? Well so far, that have to come from the tycoons.Nobody could collect taxes from the tycoons, and Hong Kong had “low tax” written into its constitution, and had the inheritance tax repealed in 2006. London tried for 50 years and couldn’t do a thing. Beijing had it for 20 years and couldn’t do a thing. Nobody is allowed to even talk about putting in a progressive income tax like all the other countries on earth. Like Voltaire said, the one you can’t talk about is the one who has power, and that’s neither London nor Beijing!With these things etched in stone until 2047, what it means is that Hong Kong became, basically, one of those former British colonies in Africa, where the local elites are most interested in wealth extraction while squirreling away their own money in London. Hong Kong is everybody’s hotel and nobody’s home. Singapore may have its own set of problems, but it is somebody’s HOME. This is the biggest difference between the two.So now you have someone who murders his girlfriend in Taiwan and stuffed her body in the suitcase, running free in Hong Kong Hongkonger killed, put girlfriend in suitcase, Taiwan police suspect, and the fourth richest tycoon, a UK citizen, caught red-handed writing a $1.4 million dollar check to a Macao government official to get a piece of land, for which he was convicted in absentia of bribery and corruption, Joseph Lau running free in Hong Kong Hong Kong fugitive tycoon seeks to block extradition. What’s the solution? Ah, Hong Kong youngsters demonstrating in the street and trashing the LegCo building to make sure these guys will NEVER be tried, because it’s all the fault of the CCP - when the CCP is an illegal, proscribed political party in Hong Kong and has been banned since the 70’s. That’s the solution! Good grief! I mean, if you write it into a movie script, Hollywood would have laughed itself silly because the plot is sheer lunacy. If you want to trash some property, go trash some tycoons’ property. They are the ones who are making 50% of HKers paying 70% of their income to rent. Nearly half Hong Kong flats rent for more than US$2,550 a month Why trash the pitifully few public property that you own a share in? How many South Koreans are educated by public universities? 80%. How many Hong Hong youths? 18%. The HKers really don’t have much “public goods”. Still, what happens when the youths want to vent? They go trash public properties! This just proves that Hong Kong is all British and not a single drop of French in it! A bit of French-ness would have been more healthy. Wealth gap in Hong Kong hits record high But no. In Hong Kong, chickens cry out for the predatory freedom of the fox.The Murder Case That Lit the Fuse in Hong KongAnd a lot of media screaming “the sky is falling! China scary! Emotion emotion emotion!” But actually, when Hong Kong demonstrators draped the British colonial flag over LegCo, they are actually making a presentation closer to the present reality than they know. Why should the tycoons be the only ones allowed to trash the place anyway? What do you think China will do about this? Well she published a letter, saying “Dear Hong Kong, you have made a nice nest egg, but with the current trade tension and uncertainly all over the world, I don’t think you can afford to squander all your money.” 人民日报评论员：坚决支持特区政府对严重违法行为追究到底--观点--人民网 This is basically a venture partner doing the “corporate talk” to the Tycoon Management team. Why would you expect anything else? China doesn’t have enough skin in the game to care too much about it. Neither does the UK government, which is why they won’t actually do a thing either, other than some cheap talk. The Tycoons have skin in the game, but they are all citizens of some other Anglo countries, and they are pretty much unmanageable, so…But what about this notion of the British being the “victim of China’s bullying”? Well, they could have easily give anyone who asked a British passport, if they believe that they are British citizens. Portugal gave far higher percentage of people in Macao Portuguese passports than UK did with her Hong Kong colony, so that those who want to live in Portugal can go live in Portugal, and those who stayed in Macao like to live in Macao. Everybody’s happy. But no. No one, absolutely no one on earth, can play the “victim” card better than the Brits. They have in the past invaded practically every single country on earth, and they were the “victim” in every single case, so they say. Right now the Brits are busy being the victim of EU bullying, after they unilaterally decided to leave the pact. Being a joint-venture partner with the Brits has historically been a high-risk position for the last thousand years or so.You may wonder exactly what the Chinese got out of the Hong Kong handover. Well the biggest thing the Chinese wanted, was to get to KNOW the Hong Kong administrative system and the industrial know-how, figure out what’s useful, and what’s junk. Setting 1.4 billion minds on a piece of knowledge is actually a thing that’s both awesome and scary - in no time at all they’ll come up with a whole basket of things that are better, that are cheaper, that are more convenient, that are different! Thus China thoroughly digested that knowledge, then used it to develop itself, and to set up special trading zones everywhere to attract foreign collaboration. Hong Kong is also a great zip code for moving product and money to other English-speaking countries such as the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, and former UK/US colonies in South East Asia.Shanghai’s GDP exceeded Hong Kong in 2009, and Shenzhen did the same in 2018.The knowledge transfer was extremely successful, so successful that Hong Kong’s economic contribution, as a percentage of China’s GDP, dropped precipitously, as other Chinese cities caught up. By 2015, Hong Kong’s share of China’s GDP has dropped to a mere 3%.Hong Kong’s significance as “China’s portal to the world” is no longer true. Today most Europeans prefer Shanghai and Beijing. The Japanese command entire neighborhoods in Shanghai, and South Koreans have their own neighborhood in Beijing. Hundreds of thousands of Africans live in Guangzhou, and Macao, as a Hong Kong-style joint venture between the Chinese and the Portuguese, has been far more successful. China not only got to learn everything she could learn from Macao, but she was able to leverage Macao as the “portal” to reach out to all Portuguese-speaking countries. such as Portugal and Brazil.And China is trying to set up the whole Hainan province into a destination and free trade zone for the Scandinavians and the Russians. They are from the far north, so they have an inordinate fondness for the sun, the ocean, and the beach. China's Hainan eyes tourists from Nordic countries and RussiaOpinion | Why China No Longer Needs Hong Kong

Thank you for the interesting question - I learned more about Hong Kong.Your profile notes that you are in Hong Kong.ZIP codes are the Postal Codes used by the U S Postal Service.Hong Kong has its own postal service , and they do not use postal codes according to Wikipedia.Thus, you do not have a ZIP code.

For the same reason that Hong Kong location searches in google don't usually work, and geocoding Hong Kong is hell.It turns out that the Hong Kong has never gotten around to standardizing addresses. This means that there is no standard form for the HK addresses formats. There is also no standard form for HK street names in English and Chinese as there is no standard transliteration in HK for either Mandarin or Cantonese.So if you have a Chinese street name, you just sound out the English term. If you go from English to Chinese, you do the same thing. If I have an apartment thenFlat A Floor 4 Block 3, Foobar Mansions, 34 Donghua LuFlat 4-A Tower 3, Foobar Mansions, Tung-Hua Rd 344/F Room A T3, 34 Tong-Wa Road, Fubar FlatsTong-Wa 34 Road, 4/F Suite A, Building 3T3 4-A, The Foobar Building, Mong-KokT3 4-A, Fuba Ta-Lou, 34 East Flower Road, Mong Kokare all perfectly acceptable addresses, and none of these addresses is the "standard English form". I can also write addresses in different order in Chinese.Also if I were to write it in Chinese, I would use "Floor 5" since Chinese floor numbers are one different from English floor numbers. Unless it's a big building....Trying to standardize addresses would require much more effort than it would save because all databases both government and private, legal documents, building permits have different addresses. And without standard addresses, mail has to be hand routed, and if you are hand routing the mail, there is no point in having zip codes.Good luck with google maps.