Hong Kong: Mainlanders worry as anti-China sentiment intensifies

Mainland Chinese people living in Hong Kong have become recent targets of pro-democracy protesters as anti-China sentiments got more intense. re have been cases of hurling abuses and a video of an attack on a Chinese JPMorgan banker has also gone viral.

Mainlanders avoid going out on weekends

According to official data, more than one million mainland Chinese live in Hong Kong and many of m have started looking to relocate as protest continues. y avoid going out on weekends since protests usually escalate during that period. mainlanders can t be identified from a distance, however, y have a different accent as compared with natives of Hong Kong. 

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Identification by langu and accent

primary langu spoken in Hong Kong is Cantonese while Mandarin is used on mainland. Sometimes surnames of mainlanders can also contribute to ir identification. Chinese people are uncertain about ir future in Hong Kong and many of m don’t want to live in city amid continued fear. Mainlanders are also blamed for increasing property prices of and overcrowding streets and shops of special ministrative region.

Hong Kong anti-Beijing activists have become more intolerant against mainlanders and ir businesses which reflected in some of attacks on China’s largest banks by smashing windows and trashing ATM machines.

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Chinese clampdown on protesters

China has been wary of simmering discontent which is clear from some recent decisions. Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been disqualified from running in local district council elections scheduled in vember. Hong Kong Electoral Affairs Commission issued a tice on October 29 on validity of Wong’s mination saying his mination has been deemed “invalid” by Returning Officer (RO).

Wong, Secretary-General of Demosistō, a pro-democracy organisation vocating self-determination for Hong Kong, claimed that he has become only candidate to be barred from running in upcoming council elections.

“It proved how Beijing manipulate election with political censorship and screening,” tweeted Wong while sharing tice issued by Returning Officer Laura Aron.

protests have also taken a toll on region’s ecomy and Hong Kong’s executive leer Carrie Lam has predicted negative ecomic growth for full year of 2019. 

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(With Inputs from ncies)