A lot of the Hong Kongers who don’t like living under Chinese rule will leave. Their solution to this long term is going to be a population tragedy. So they will use whatever measures they need to prevent that. The Chinese are always terrified that if one rebel province can secede, they’ll all secede. From the Chinese standpoint, China’s like a Roach Motel. There is a significant independence movement in Hong Kong. Most of the Chinese population hasn’t liked this. So I think the biggest mistake Margaret Thatcher made in her glorious career was to cede Hong Kong and Kowloon to China when she didn’t have to. The majority of its population never wanted to be Chinese. It was founded by the British at the beginning of the opium trade. Your thoughts on what China is doing there? Recently, the British government has offered to every Hong Kong citizen, I’ve read, a passport or some sort of regularized status in the United Kingdom. First, China’s move to encroach upon, if not eliminate, the semi-autonomous zone of freedom given to Hong Kong. Thank you so much for inviting me, Richard.ĭavid, on your book, two items from China everyone is discussing, and I know that they in some way feature into what you’ve written. David Goldman, welcome to Liberty Law Talk.
He’s the author of a number books, including most recently, How Civilizations Die. He’s advised the US National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and institutional investors globally. He also is widely read and published in foreign policy and national security. And he was an investment banker for a Hong Kong boutique called Reorient, which was purchased by Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba. He was the head of global trading research for Bank of America. He’s an award-winning Wall Street strategist.
David Goldman is the author of the widely read Spengler column for the Asia Times. Today we’re talking with David Goldman about his new book, You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-form the World.
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