Project Territory: China and its special administrative region, Hong Kong. Areas of Investigation: One country – two systems – to try to preserve the economic and political strengths that Hong Kong had built up and to maintain its capitalist free market, Hong Kong was offered the option of setting up a \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 policy \u2013 giving Hong Kong a great degree of autonomy from China. Capitalist paradise, communist paradise? Capitalism in Hong Kong has developed since the Second World War, and the region is now known to be a leading example of a laissez-faire capitalist economy. Attracting mainland Chinese and expatriates from afar, Hong Kong\u2019s entrepreneurs over the last few decades have made extreme achievements. In opposition to Hong Kong\u2019s capitalism, China\u2019s Communist Party is the world\u2019s largest political party. After the \u2018May Fourth\u2019 anti-imperialist movement in 1919, Marxist ideas began diffusing throughout China. Today though, the question that has to be asked is whether China is now a communist, socialist, nationalist or even capitalist society. Western Hong Kong, Eastern China. China has been much longer in development than Hong Kong has if the start of Hong Kong\u2019s true development is considered to have begun only when the British gained control of it. Before this time, Hong Kong was, compared to the size of China, an insignificant port on China\u2019s South coast. It can be said then, that Hong Kong has a more Western development behind it, while China, obviously had an Eastern viewpoint behind its development. Philosophical Ideas: John Locke \u2013 liberalism in relation to Hong Kong\u2019s \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 method of government. Karl Marx \u2013 capitalism and communism, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The Communist Manifesto in relation to the governing principles of China. Max Weber \u2013 Weber\u2019s connection between religion and economics and a brief look at his discussion of an ideal type of capitalism. Guy Debord – modern lives being invaded by the \u2018spectacle\u2019 and our passivity towards our own existences. This is related to China\u2019s lack of freedom of speech and no free press forcing passivity onto the Chinese population. Conclusion: Hong Kong took risks \u2013 risks that worked to Hong Kong\u2019s advantage \u2013 however, as the term \u2018risk\u2019 suggests, Hong Kong\u2019s actions could just have easily made the region head down another road completely. Today, Hong Kong is not taking risks, but under the risk of China\u2019s influence. Is Hong Kong a model or a threat to China? \u2013 The question may have to be reversed to China \u2013 model or threat to Hong Kong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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