{"id":8341,"date":"2014-10-06T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T03:24:43","slug":"two-very-different-perspectives-on-hong-kongs-mass-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2014\/10\/06\/8341\/","title":{"rendered":"Two different perspectives on Hong Kong&#8217;s mass protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cBig business is trying to say that we are privileged\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two very different perspectives on the protests: Hong Kong billionaire Alan Zeman and protester Pa Sha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I profiled Allan as part of a 2007 CCTV documentary on how Hong Kong had changed since the handover from the British, so it was interesting to talk with him again today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allan Zeman:<\/strong> \u201cThe protests have polarized the community. Many people\u2019s businesses, many people\u2019s livelihoods depend on the streets being open and earning a living. Many shops are losing their small businesses, they can\u2019t afford to keep staff. There needs to be an end in sight. There is no system in the world that is a perfect political system. Hong Kong never had universal suffrage. We have to understand it from China\u2019s side. The Chinese government doesn\u2019t want this to spread to China, because then they can\u2019t keep China stable. If you understand China, sometimes you understand why they need to black out news reports, because they need to keep a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8343\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2014\/10\/allan-zemana-e1412565449708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8343\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2014\/10\/allan-zemana-600x372.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong Billionaire Allan Zeman.\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Kong Billionaire Allan Zeman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Pa Sha:<\/strong> \u201cThe rich and the business sector have stood firmly against democratic rights in Hong Kong. The ordinary people are pro democracy and have been pouring into the streets over the last week. Big business is trying to say that we are privileged enough and we don\u2019t need democracy. And even by their logic, if you compare us with China, it\u2019s like you are comparing hell with a lesser hell. Hong Kong is dominated by big business, tycoons, big corporations which are in league with the CCP and the Hong Kong government. And it is because of such an alliance between corporations and the government, the government over the years has implemented a lot of pro-business policies that have angered a lot of people. This is why people have come out on the streets in such anger. This is not only about the future, it is about the livelihood of ordinary citizens. Hong Kong has the most unaffaordable houses in the whole world. As a young person we can\u2019t own our own homes in the future. Stagnating wages are another issue and the lack of a universal pension system, and the lack of standard working hours in Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8313\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2014\/10\/Danny-e1412418355483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8313\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2014\/10\/Danny-600x468.jpg\" alt=\"Socialist Action member Pa Sha (left) at campaign stall in Mong Kok occupation. \" width=\"600\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socialist Action member Pa Sha (left) at campaign stall in Mong Kok occupation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBig business is trying to say that we are privileged\u201d\u00a0 Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page. Two very different perspectives on the protests: Hong Kong billionaire Alan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. I profiled Allan as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,124],"tags":[2848,2847,207,174,1007,11,1726,2846,2836],"class_list":{"0":"post-8341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hong-kong","8":"category-news","9":"tag-allan-zeman","10":"tag-billionaires","11":"tag-ccp","12":"tag-china-2","13":"tag-democracy","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-socialist-action","16":"tag-tycoons","17":"tag-umbrella-revolution"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two different perspectives on Hong Kong&#039;s mass protests - China Worker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2014\/10\/06\/8341\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two different perspectives on Hong Kong&#039;s mass protests - China Worker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cBig business is trying to say that we are privileged\u201d\u00a0 Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. 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