Since 1997, when Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty, there is one question I must have answered hundreds of times: “Has anything changed?” Of course it has, I’m tempted to say. Nowhere stays the same. But I have usually resorted to a simple: “No”. After all, Hong Kong’s core virtues all remain in place – its open economy, free press and personal liberties. The rule of law remains entrenched and every year on June 4, tens of thousands of people go to Victoria Park to remember those killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
自1997年香港回歸中國以來,有一個問題我肯定已經回答過幾百次了,那就是:“香港有什么變化嗎?”我的第一反應總是:當然有。一切都不一樣了。但我最后通常會簡單地回答:“沒有。”畢竟,香港的核心優勢全都還在——開放的經濟、言論自由和個人自由。法治的地位依然穩固;每年6月4日,數萬民眾仍會聚集到維多利亞公園(Victoria Park),紀念1989年天安門廣場事件中的死難者。