CGTN produced this report which features Daniel Dumbrill, whom they describe as a Canadian businessman. He is of the opinion that Hong Kong is “far freer” since it was returned to China following British rule.
Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian businessman who has lived in the Hong Kong SAR and Shenzhen for over 11 years, gave his opinion on what he knows about the protests and the national security legislation for Hong Kong. #HongKong #HK
CGTN YouTube Channel
Interestingly, Dumbrill has lived in Hong Kong “for over 11 years” which did not include the time when it was a British colony and dependent territory, which ended in 1997 (it ran from 1841 to 1997), so his opinion is not based on his own lived experiences.
In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.