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Since June this year, Hong Kong, the brilliant pearl of the east, has been dull thanks to a large number of protesters and some violent youngsters destroying public transport facilities and attacking policemen around the city and even in the international airport area. Some say they are hired by the four richest families of the city to make pressure to the national government for more freedom.

Hong Kong was the land of China and taken away by the British in a lease for 99 years that expired in 1997. But living too long under the civilized rule of the UK, the local people do not want to return to the bad old days and old home even it is not far away, hence the conflict of ideology and vision. China is now growing fast and the local HK people are losing their superiority when they find that they have nothing to flaunt before their fellow countrymen that were treated as red necks for so long.

A young and pretty Chinese lady who is believed to study in Germany is having a debate in English, German and Mandarin with some Hong Kong youngsters who made protests in front of the famous Cologne Cathedral.

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