Published 2003-10-04 00:06:51
SARS - our expert accountability avoiders
This weeks focus in Hong Kong was around the 'experts' report on SARS, or better known as 'avoid blame by employing outsiders who have no idea what goes on here'. The fact they failed to critazise the goverment for spotting the bleeding obvious (hong kong has always been a hotbed for desieses, and bad spelling) so why on earth did they have any idea that something like this was coming. In the end it just left that classic feeling in Hong Kong, that the goverment hasn't got half a clue, and is panicing from one crisis to another.
It puts a good perspective on the crazy goings on back home in the UK and in the US (like where are those weapons), where at least when a leader is caught lying to the public, there is some hope that they can get thrown out.
This weeks Chinese National Day
Where most people basically couldnt care less.. - another hoilday, go to the beach (which was very nice) or clean graves. Illustrated by the pathetic television shots of semi-empty audiences for major street processions. Hell, it only looked busy when they went past Causeway Bay, and that was due to the fact that people got interupted bargin hunting..
And the ongoing mess of our economy
Hong Kong people cheered when they returned to the motherland, but they all prefer a free, booming economy rather than a disasterous one caused by an old guard chinese appointed cronies, who rather than let the economy bounce, are managing to stagnate it (read no land sales), just to make sure the tycoons dont loose to much on their property investments...
