Hong Kong accused of being "low-energy" What are the advantages of Singapore?

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Written by: Comment Editor

2020-02-18 17:34

Recently, a section of Singapore ’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Chen Zhensheng, explained the recording of the Xingzhou authorities ’response to the epidemic in a closed-door setting. In the meantime, he compared Singapore ’s policy with Hong Kong ’s and even called Hong Kong ’s performance“ low energy ”. Many netizens watched Bi Yi's indignation and made various counterattacks in isolation. Singapore and Hong Kong are in a different situation. Some are difficult to compare by analogy, and it is directly fair to say that Hong Kong people are "low energy". However, if you only compare the criticisms of Hong Kong in the recording, you will miss the part worth reflecting.

The epidemic of the new coronavirus pneumonia has spread to areas around China, and emergency mechanisms must be adopted everywhere. Judging from the statistics alone, Singapore is the region with the most infections outside the Mainland. The latest data has 77 cases, more than Hong Kong. Regarding Chen Zhensheng's use of Hong Kong as an anti-face-to-face textbook, some people in Hong Kong said that he did not know himself, and even satirized that Singaporeans were "more idiots than idiots."

Objectively speaking, Chen Zhensheng compared Hong Kong people's mask grabbing and toilet paper acts with Singapore, and even used the word "idiot", which is very incompatible with his identity. Because his remarks not only targeted Hong Kong, but also disparaged Singaporeans, he was criticized within Sing Chau, forcing him to draw pictures on Facebook, emphasizing that he had a "frank conversation" with a group of local business leaders that day.

There was no damn person under the epidemic, whether Singaporeans or Hong Kong people, at this time accusation of each other is of no help, increasing the gap between each other. There is no reason to laugh at the criticism in the recording, but the flaws are not concealed. We should not miss a paragraph in this recording that is worthy of reference by Hong Kong people. The recording pointed out that even if Hong Kong people do many "low energy" things, because they rely on China, in order to penetrate the Chinese market, foreign investors will eventually return to Hong Kong. However, Singapore has no room for "idiots" because Singapore is the reason The attracting of many foreign capital is based on its stable politics and society. If Singapore is out of control in the epidemic, then "the virus has not killed us (Singaporeans), we have been killed by our own actions."

This passage clearly highlights the "Singaporean personality". "If you do not strengthen yourself, you will be abandoned by the world" is the core of Singapore's spirit. Since Singapore ’s “founding father” Lee Kuan Yew announced in tears that Singapore was kicked out of the Malaysian Federation in 1963, Singapore ’s governors themselves and the way they educate the people are based on this strong sense of worry. It can be said that the success of modern Singapore is based on the people's awareness of the strong sense of crisis in the international community that cannot survive without strength.

The success of modern Singapore is precisely because people are aware of the strong sense of crisis in the international community that cannot survive without strength. (Getty Images)

The so-called "family has hard-to-read sutras", Singapore's set may not be what Hong Kong people want, but the strong sense of worry and self-improvement of Singaporeans is something that the Hong Kong government and Hong Kong people must learn. Hong Kong is a city of luck. To say so is not to obliterate the past efforts of Hong Kong people. Whether the Mainland changed its nature in 1949 and caused a large amount of capital to enter Hong Kong, or China's reform and opening up later brought huge growth momentum to Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a blessed "lucky man." But this luck is like a curse, from the government to the ordinary people are sedated by its sweet coat.

The Hong Kong Government has long lived in the imagination that everything can be done as long as it does nothing. It is even more superstitious about the extreme "big market, small government" concept of a free economy. Don't say that the current government is not doing anything. Even the colonial Hong Kong government admitted that it felt "no concept" about the success of Hong Kong. This has fostered the government's long-standing concepts of "doing more and making more mistakes and doing less and less mistakes" and "let the market play." This attitude is okay in the good times, but as social problems have become more serious and external competition has intensified, we have discovered how these "inactions" make Hong Kong unable to move forward. Outside of the government, Hong Kong people are overconfident in the value of Hong Kong and indulge in a "feeling good" state of "food", always thinking that Hong Kong can sit in its imagination even without increasing its competitiveness. During the anti-revision demonstrations last year, some Hong Kong people holding the "irreplaceable status of Hong Kong" showed their mentality, and even evolved the "Language theory" argument. But as the world continues to move forward, reality seems to keep telling us that "you can only go up if you can't," is the truth.

Former Chief Executive Liang Zhenying's "appropriately proactive" is also inseparable from "laissez-faire." (Photo / Photo by Liang Mingming)

Singaporeans' accusations against Hong Kong may not be desirable, but what Hong Kong lacks is precisely that sense of sorrow and determination to strengthen themselves.

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