flags of UK and Hong Kong painted on cracked wall
When I was a child growing up in Mainland China and visiting Hong Kong, I was always perplexed by the names of roads and places in this city which apparently belonged to China names like Chatham, Nathan, Prince Edward. I always wondered why these foreign-sounding names were to be found in what I was taught in school was a city that belonged to China. Sure, it was a British colony, but why hadn’t they changed the names now that Hong Kong was a part of China?
Many years later, after my childhood visits and with the entire Western world continuously and mono-maniacally obsessed with race, colour and the negative legacies of colonialism, I have realised that in East Asia, particularly in the Chinese-speaking world, the legacy of colonialism and how people view it, is a whole lot more complicated than what many in the West, particularly on the globalist left, view them to be.