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Hong Kong
“Chinese state-controlled Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong today: "So-called US-style democracy has descended into a…” (5 November 2020)
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First post8 February 2018
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Hong Kong appears in 16 posts. GritCult uses the city in two ways: in 2018 as evidence for free trade and light government, and from 2019 as a window on protest, memes and China's hold on power.

Views

In his early libertarian arguments Hong Kong is the counterexample to state intervention. He pointed to a city that "remained open to trade and tax despite concerns by the british govt" and asked readers to "look how advanced it is" [1], and held up its labour market as the free market working as it ought to [2]. China in the same period is a threat, a giant state with re-education camps, and Hong Kong is one of the places where he says the effect can be seen [3].

When the protests came, he read them through his interest in memes and riots. He noticed "how pepe has found a new lease of life in hong kong" [4], and placed the Hong Kong riots in a line running from the 2011 London riot through the Arab Spring, proof that "Each successive riot means there is someone learning and improving on the art of the riot." [5] He counted the riots among the omens that, in Chinese tradition as he describes it, signal "a revocation of the mandate of heaven" [6], and called it a "very interesting perspective" when a Chinese state paper in Hong Kong declared US democracy a joke [7]. In 2026 he corrected a claim that Britain gave the city away: "It was a lease" [8].

Recurring themes

  • free trade and light government
  • china as a rising threat
  • protest as a learned art
  • memes crossing borders
  • the mandate of heaven

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 4 retweets:

Chinese state-controlled Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong today: "So-called US-style democracy has descended into a joke."

very interesting perspective
GRITCULT on X, 5 November 2020

Selected posts

All 16 posts in the archive about Hong Kong, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

DateRetweetsLikesPostMediaSource
5 November 2020446Chinese state-controlled Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong today: "So-called US-style democracy has descended into a joke."

very interesting perspective		Post imageView
14 April 2019437Id stand on a flight if it's cuts prices (which it will)

£20, London Heathrow to Hong Kong international? Sign me up.

Liberalisation of the flight industry has dropped prices massively for consumers. Competition leads to innovation in (price, quality & safety

THREAD 0/		Post imageView
30 May 2020343Each successive riot means there is someone learning and improving on the art of the riot.

Now people have become decentralised masses.

2011 London riot.
Arab spring
Occupy Wall Street to the Hong Kong riots.

We live in the most documented era ever.

Humans adapt.		View
2 February 2020321the chinese are ver superstitious when it comes to ruling they say each leadership will end with a series of natural disasters which shows a revocation of the mandate of heaven

so far

corona virus
swine flu
hong kong riots

now a earthquake		View
20 August 201936it is pretty blatant that there are those who "seed" these memes and predict the evolution and the social effects that these may have

but see how pepe has found a new lease of life in hong kong		View
12 June 201812@ClintWarren6 @NeotipPro @wikileaks this all points to china becoming a super power
now look at the ideals that china spews ?

giant state
no religious freedoms
re-education camps
and tactical moving of ethnic minorities

see effect on tibet and hong kong

its a *threat*

see more:		View
22 March 201802Also see the history of hong kong. It remained open to trade and tax despite concerns by the british govt and now look how advanced it is....

Its like there is a correlation between free trade and capitalism and prosperity		View
3 October 201902@YaBoyRoly @fireratjack Cold War theory makes more sense.

Look at other agricultural failures of China. Too much coincidence. And now with Hong Kong and other protests. Cold wars are indirect wars of attrition.		View
25 April 202602@cheungkarkei @BowTiedMara Hong Kong wasn’t given away. It was a lease

U.K. is much better than you’ll read on the internet 🤣		View
8 February 201801@sam_turpin i saw a link, havent seen a proper article, idk bout hong kong i think its more liberalView
30 April 201801@NicktocYT ah yes i am mentioning state intervention as those are the problems that YOU are outlining

labour is not exploited as much as labour in a free market ought to be traded as is the case in hong kong

there was a monopoly, the Federal reserve which is a central bank		View
21 April 202401@lindynomad Hong Kong crypto conferenceView
30 April 201800@NicktocYT the bootstrap mentality works though

my father is an immigrant, he came here with a suitcase, now owns multiple businesses

see hong kong too, hardly any state intervention and it is world renown on its development and how people will escape socialist countries to go there		View
1 August 201800@shitcoinpavlov hong kong ?

i think its pretty well right

"Hong Kong is top ranked in the world for luxury property market."		View
11 June 202000@InfernalAcorn @PollySpin Or did the riots start in Hong Kong ?View
3 January 202100@KBULTRA0 @AGStover "didnt do anything" why would the powers that be want to do "anything"

china will be checked by india and east asian naval powers all of whom wanted biden to win.

riots like the one in hong kong will increase in china, xinjiang seperatists are already being funded.		View

History

GritCult first posted about Hong Kong on 8 February 2018, and most recently on 25 April 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 16 times, most often in 2018 (6 posts).

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References

  1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 March 2018). Also see the history of hong kong. It remained open to trade and tax despite concerns by the british govt and now look how advanced it is. X.
  2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 April 2018). labour is not exploited as much as labour in a free market ought to be traded as is the case in hong kong. X.
  3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (12 June 2018). giant state no religious freedoms re-education camps... see effect on tibet and hong kong. X.
  4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (20 August 2019). but see how pepe has found a new lease of life in hong kong. X.
  5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 May 2020). Each successive riot means there is someone learning and improving on the art of the riot. X.
  6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (2 February 2020). they say each leadership will end with a series of natural disasters which shows a revocation of the mandate of heaven. X.
  7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 November 2020). So-called US-style democracy has descended into a joke." very interesting perspective. X.
  8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (25 April 2026). Hong Kong wasn’t given away. It was a lease. X.
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