The tragic blaze that engulfed a high-rise in Tai Po, located in Hong Kong’s northern New Territories, is not a distant horror for expatriates and their families.
This very district is the heart of the local Japanese community—home to the Hong Kong Japanese School (Primary Division) and a core hub for Japanese residents in the Kowloon and New Territories areas.
While no Japanese casualties have been reported, the true terror this fire exposes is far greater than the flames themselves.
I have lived in Hong Kong for 40 years.
The city that once served as a window to the international world has been fundamentally transformed, now thoroughly permeated by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ideology of “speech control.”
Behind this catastrophic fire, how many “inconvenient truths” is the Sinicized Hong Kong government attempting to conceal?
This incident offers a chilling look at Hong Kong’s lost freedoms and the dark reality of this once-global city.
