标题: [国际新闻] 《时代》25页篇幅认错：回归没令香港死亡 [打印本页]

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作者: 日月光    时间: 2007-6-9 08:36     标题: 《时代》25页篇幅认错：回归没令香港死亡

美国权威杂志《财富》（《Fortune》）于1995年一度预言，回归将令香港死亡。但回归十年后，最新出版的《时代》周刊，终在十三年后为此言论来了个迟来的大平反，不仅承认其姊妹杂志《财富》当年报道错误，更直认香港比从前更有活力。
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　　最新出版的《时代》周刊，以25页的篇幅探讨回归十年香港的变化，并以“阳光灿烂中见阴霾（Sunshine with Clouds）”为点题。对于《财富》杂志当年惊世的《香港之死》报道，《时代》坦诚认错，承认姊妹杂志完全是“错误地”及“差劣地”作出推测。《时代》解释香港过去十年经历金融风暴、禽流感、SARS、市民为基本法廿三条上街示威等……当世人以为香港贵为福地的气数已尽，香港却一一熬过来。
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　　离回归十周年尚余三个星期，《时代》指出香港近期的股市屡创新高，物业格价亦稳步上扬，正值阳光灿烂时，不过晴空之中却有阴霾：香港前景仍受许多不明朗因素影响。# q  |9 `7 M8 Q. z+ E2 ?7 h

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July 1, 1997: After 156 years of British rule, China resumes sovereignty over Hong Kong.( v- h( V. {' |8 t
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Feb. 19, 2002: Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, appointed by Beijing in 1997 to serve as Hong Kong's first post-colonial leader, is reelected.- e: n" Z: I) V2 W, L0 U- G* E

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7 n1 O7 i! F0 K# b$ eMarch 10, 2005: After weeks of rumors, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa abruptly resigns, citing his declining health. 2 a1 r# I4 n+ C( |1 e

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The Expat Exodus
/ ^7 b0 C) K9 ]- i9 ^/ i) \On July 1, 1997, as Hong Kong waved goodbye to its colonial rulers on board the HMS Britannia, pessimists predicted the city's expatriate professionals would follow.   g$ o- ?0 g' U8 B& x

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Jittery about political crackdowns and economic slowdown, thousands of Hong Kong residents left town in the years before the handover.
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/ D; {' A: L5 _  E) L. l　　《时代》分析，香港人仍在身份认同及定位上感到迷失。港人对祖国又敬又怕，进而希望争取民主独立，这种心态却令政策陷于胶着状态。保守派与民主派的对立，造成政治麻痹：上至经济下至污染的议题，双方都不愿妥协。
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作者: 日月光    时间: 2007-6-9 08:41

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The People's Liberation Army
& f- l- g% o7 I- U8 c5 b; B0 R' gA 1995 Fortune magazine article famously predicted the "Death of Hong Kong" following the handover, prophesying that PLA soldiers would be a visible, ominous presence on Hong Kong's streets. ( K3 h% a! H3 A9 X0 G& @1 x/ \
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! j/ w6 _& a" d, a" UVictoria Park. Queen's Pier. Stanley. While many symbols of British rule vanished overnight after the handover — teams of workmen removed the royal seal from post offices, police stations and institutions like the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club — Hong Kong's colonial place names endure.
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Milton Friedman, the late Nobel Prize-winning economist, predicted that within two years of the handover China would introduce capital controls and replace the territory's currency. Wrong.
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With its black robes and horsehair wigs, Hong Kong's court system is an obvious inheritance from Britain. Little has changed since the handover.& s$ z; i8 X( h& I$ [
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Hong Kong made itself fabulously wealthy by acting as the lone conduit between China and the world, funneling goods and investment in both directions. ; _/ ]8 P7 s' y) s6 {8 e

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4 |5 N& s* ?% {/ }1 {; _! HContrary to dire predictions, Hong Kong hasn't yet lost its economic edge to cheaper cities on the mainland or to cleaner, more orderly Singapore.

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