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The Origins of Freedom in Hong Kong | Laurence Pak | TEDxWestIslandSchool


Oh Jamie so first of all I like to thank
you for the opportunity let me speak
tonight and second of all try to use
this video text line self-esteem that
so I guess my name is Lawrence and I
represent a dialogue wants to do so what
we are is we are a public policy think
tank and our objective is to help the
people of Hong Kong who are victimized
by Bosch policies but at the topic for
my season I slightly different so I’m
going to talk about the origin freedom
we all know that Hong Kong is the world
free astronomy and I’m sure all three
how badly for our freedom is especially
today but if we look at the instant
cocoa never meant to be this global
input an important goal City breath of
the star in fact address the British did
not even wish to take home phone is a
comment so it can be said that the
freedom that we were me and daughter day
so we also heavy package at the first up
adore but before we talk on to this
important role at the end of the first
hole 31 in 1842 he was a sign of the
tassel natuzzi in the terms of the
Treaty of Nanking but against specific
instruction from London
to take home as a pony so why did I let
the knowledge to take hong kong in the
first place so simply because of
hospitals just imagine how expensive is
the run city that is almost 10,000
kilometers away from them so potter jet
head to govern hong kong with restraints
that we today would describe no but
death at no time so I made these
contains cotton-jersey the smart guy you
later few ground rules for the
government first of all ho ho would not
have any car back taxes second of all
how it would be a free trading more no
restriction of train even with Henry’s
on the tape and third home power always
the set local customs and of course you
can see why he lay down is routed to
simplify operating expenses so and these
uber later became too long as possible
so in the year nineteen twelve that was
when dr. students and became the
founding fathers of all the time he was
a truly a global citizen XE trouble of
Asia Europe and America to raise support
for the revolution but he used Hong Kong
taxes strategic and financial face and I
thought because he he he lived here and
he CoSIDA at that time hong kong had
some really important qualities we had
feet reach and many freedoms in general
and and at that time there was no
extradition arrangement for criminals
would make my time and certainly at that
time banks it up a tiny anti-money
laundering laws that data today just
think about it after all he was ranting
over
so so these anti money laundering laws
we we always get to say something just
imagine that a hundred years ago AJ had
the same route with a cottage in our
so far for the 1945 that there was the
end of the second world so today we
often talk about refugees screened at
home country in order to look for safety
and freedom in kinds of war and
starvation the let’s not forget that
hong kong was was a refugee camp many
people myself into it had parents or
grandparents who came to Hong Kong from
mainland China just to escape war and
starvation and in the five years after
1945 the population of Hong Kong
increase from about 500,000 be 2 million
at that time people who came they didn’t
become anything in fact there was no
gravity programs or government welfare
or any sort of urban housing at a time
so we are so wide that they call at the
time it is because they were looking for
the freedom is it of course a lot of
people who came who are able to track
for
from their friends and families and
there were plenty of charities which
offered support so at that time you
became obviously we’re able to find off
to support themselves and their families
if you think about it improv operation
went from about five hundred thousand to
two million so in fact we were able to
create more jobs than there were a
number of people if you find that
amazing I would say that that that’s
what you get plenty of freedom and in
the next two decades after the bodies
come from continue to grow we amazing
way around so but minute ago everything
gives and so with body sweats always
refugees going on these days next time
when you hear anyone say de over the
traffic are that the immigrants the
immigrants are all we can see our jobs
so you have to solve each other and
during the Korean War and the 15-time
female officer enemy to it
patience but remember the one of the
promise for the couple minutes we always
trade with anyone meet with the enemies
of the state and farm on at that time is
able to keep this promise so this is
preston bad name of handy thought he was
able to despite the UN trade and Barbara
he was able to transport materials and
kids into women time from hong kong and
so despite the fact that hong kong at a
time was an enemy to china we were still
able to keep our promise and all of
these examples of the show that this is
fight the obvious fact that freedom in
it stains the city that stick today that
really was it be here yeah if you ask me
at many points of this week these
freedoms and only better than us but
also other countries work and of course
our leaders in Maine and time I leave
this is very well so when they began to
think about the hangover from the
British vector time they make me very
see that the system will be protected so
far again the year
that was the beginning of the thoughts
regarding hong kong’s have a better time
when British Prime Minister Mark my
reflective man of Chinese leader than
shopping he told her blood leader if
China wanted he would just take home
home back by force he stated that i
could just move in and take the whole
lot this afternoon so the punch in the
fall is a shot why are they due time to
take home a lot a bit of the way but
it’s 15 years old I do the time is at an
angle so to solidify obvious that
basically nothing wrong hong kong back
until they can figure out a way to keep
the system in hong kong of course i’m
shelling were able to decide this and we
came before
one country two systems and he made it
very clear that the system which you
because writing he reverted as
capitalism was meant to be kept because
they complemented the socialism that was
in place in China at the time so here in
fact he was he wanted the system to
determine this was not an accident so
these fevers cell are any cottages to
the government of Hong Kong made me know
our taxes a free drilling for and we
should respect the local customs they
will they announced today known as a
positive not independent and this is the
takeaway from the spirituality of Hong
Kong and that is freedom never credited
just one small group of people when you
have free trade any traction feathers
and slow time and the freedom in Hong
Kong will enjoy not too fast but by our
mothers antigua and that’s it from
[Applause] [Music]
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