Weekly Exclusive Featured | Sino-US soft power war begins, how can Hong Kong Chu Fengyan stand alone?

If the "U.S.-Soviet Cold War" is the "first soft power world war," then the current "China-US game" can be described as the "second soft power world war."

However, unlike the previous "differences" between "capitalism" and "communism," the core of this "war" lies in the mutual learning and exchange of Chinese and Western cultures.

As the capital of Chinese and Western cultures, Hong Kong is the main battlefield of this "collision of exchanges."

For example, the "Outline of the National Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" clearly "supports Hong Kong's development of Sino-foreign cultural and artistic exchange centers", which obviously puts forward higher strategic deployment and mission requirements for Hong Kong's cultural soft power.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor will set up a "Cultural, Sports and Tourism Bureau" for this purpose.

However, many people worry that Hong Kong has long been labelled as a "cultural desert" and that the SAR government itself is the source of cultural drying up. I am afraid that it will not be able to shoulder this important task: to blindly chase the western torrent, and under ideological prejudice, slow down. The slow loss of emphasis on traditional Chinese culture has led to the gradual distortion of the characteristics of Hong Kong, which should have been a blend of Chinese and Western civilizations. Secondly, it completely ignores the public attribute of "cultural governance" and the significance of shaping social values, and instead allows the business competition model to lead the trend. Turning culture and art into luxury goods that can only be enjoyed by the upper class; the third has almost distorted the meaning of "cultural development" and often simplified it as "organizing events". It is impossible to see the importance of improving the overall cultural quality through profound literary education. .

How should the authorities break through these predicaments so as to rebuild the soft cultural power dedicated to "Hong Kong, China", so that Hong Kong can truly integrate China and foreign countries and create a new chapter in "Chinese-foreign cultural and artistic exchanges"?

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Get rid of blind westernization, establish the main body of the special zone, reshape the soft power of Hong Kong's culture

What kind of "Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau" does Hong Kong need?

"Cultural loss" has been a long time, literature and art education must start from the doll

Break the space barriers and let the culture and art bloom everywhere

Local VS International West Kowloon should not be reduced to a pirated Western cultural field

Can "Culture+" cross-border integration become a new direction for Hong Kong's development?

The West Kowloon Cultural District often imitates foreign activities and turns it into a pirated Western cultural base.

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Slow public housing construction can't just blame the Housing Authority

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor shared his "satisfied thoughts" last Sunday (10th), saying that if the progress of housing construction after the government handed over the land is too slow, the current cash allowance issued by the government to those waiting for public housing should be paid by the Housing Authority. Establish a spirit of accountability.

Many members of the Housing Authority objected that the Housing Authority had completed the project as soon as possible. Instead, they pointed out that what was going to be reviewed was the ineffective planning process.

Although Lam Cheng clarified two days later that this remark was not a suggestion, and behind it he hoped to promote the construction of public housing, but the fact that housing construction is slow still needs to be faced squarely.

The Housing Authority has to bear certain responsibilities, but the Transportation and Housing Bureau, the Development Bureau and their subordinate departments, and even the legislature can hardly stay out of the matter...

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Lam Cheng mentioned earlier that if the Housing Authority is too slow to build houses after the government delivers the land in the future, it will have to pay the cash allowance by itself.

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Two-sided Chen Feng: From Adventurer to Prisoner

For those familiar with the founding team of HNA, the Buddhist scriptures and "Guoxue" are just superficial. The spirit of adventurer and gambling are the core, and it is also the root of HNA's transformation from a small local airline to a multinational investment giant.

In an interview with the media, Chen Feng gave the outside world the impression of being gentle and gentle, and he particularly liked to put "cause and effect" and "adventure experience" on his lips. It is no wonder that HNA creditors complained: "He has no debt repayment plan, only causation."

Obviously, behind Chen Feng's keen interest in studying Buddhism and "Chinese Studies", he can't escape the "greed, hatred and ignorance" of human nature. The result of his crazy expansion was severe insolvency. HNA Group was forced to go bankrupt and reorganize. Chen Feng and his The founding team’s equity was completely cleared. On the eve of the Phoenix Nirvana of New HNA, Chen Feng himself was imprisoned and turned from a "treater" to a prisoner...

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Chen Feng's impression of the outside world is gentle and gentle, and he particularly likes to put "cause and effect" and "adventure experience" on his lips.

(China News Service)

Epidemic, shipping congestion, power curtailment in China: global supply chain chaos is difficult to solve

Under the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many countries are forced to adopt anti-epidemic measures such as closing cities and restricting operations, which has led to an increase in the demand for pre-packaged goods by people, restaurants and restaurants all over the world.

Last month, there was an uproar on social media. A group of Coca-Cola fans discovered that Diet Coke and Coke Zero in some countries and regions were out of stock in the past few weeks.

However, the shortage of Coca-Cola is only a microcosm of the current chaos in the global supply chain...

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The shortage of Coca-Cola in many countries has caused concern.

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Please pay attention to the 287th "Hong Kong 01" weekly electronic report published on October 18, 2021.

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