A leading academic at "Peking" University (not Beijing, even though the report appeared in the Guardian) has accused the population of Hong Kong as "dogs of British imperialists".
This is flattering to the United Kingdom in a number of ways.
1 It assumes we still have some kind of hegemonic imperial influece in the Far East, whereas in reality those days are long gone.
2 Two thirds of the population of Hong Kong do not feel any affinity with Mainland China, which indicates they prefer the old colonial set-up which ended in 1997 (being exploited and oppressed by the arrogant colonial British is preferable to the "liberty" and "freedom" of independence - someone should tell Alex Salmond this!).
3 In the days when China was genuinely communist the United Kingdom was routinely described as "top hat imperialist running dogs" but this new accusation indicates we now have running dogs of our own, which presumably is a promotion of some sort.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/chinese-professor-hong-kong-dogs
This is flattering to the United Kingdom in a number of ways.
1 It assumes we still have some kind of hegemonic imperial influece in the Far East, whereas in reality those days are long gone.
2 Two thirds of the population of Hong Kong do not feel any affinity with Mainland China, which indicates they prefer the old colonial set-up which ended in 1997 (being exploited and oppressed by the arrogant colonial British is preferable to the "liberty" and "freedom" of independence - someone should tell Alex Salmond this!).
3 In the days when China was genuinely communist the United Kingdom was routinely described as "top hat imperialist running dogs" but this new accusation indicates we now have running dogs of our own, which presumably is a promotion of some sort.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/chinese-professor-hong-kong-dogs
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