Do a quick search online for "Hong Kong handover 15 years", news media will tell you something about the promise, the protests, the changes or not, and the uneasy.
Here I want to tell you a number of seemingly insignificant incidents happened lately, which might mean something or nothing in history.
Paul Mooney 慕亦仁: THE prize-winning foreign correspondent who wrote "Beyond belief", "Silence of the Dissidents", "Darkness at Noon" and "Dangerous Element" last year was driven out of South China Morning Post after 20 years: THE English newspaper in HK or no more.
Li Wang Yang 李旺陽: A pro-democracy activist from 1989 crackdown, who has spent the longest time (21 years) in Chinese prison "Was Suicided" in hospital. Tens of thousands of HK people who had never heard Li's name before his death, marched to protest.
Hong Kong Police: Took a journalist Rex Hon, away and detained him after he asked the Chinese President a question during his visit, and on the same day, fired volleys of pepper spray against protesters. These kinds of actions may be common in the rest of the world, but were almost unheard of in HK before 1997.
Leung Chun Ying 梁振英: THE property surveyor lied about the illegal additions to his mansion again and again, sworn into office today as Hong Kong A.R's chief executive (No S, because it's no longer Special).
It just happened that "Smashing Pumpkins" released this song "The beginning is the end is the beginning" in 1997, the year of handover. Sometimes, I do imagine, in the darkest time, some dark heroes will appear. We might need Batman & Robin very soon.
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