* X# Z# y) S: b& x) b0 L 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。 h( w e/ |& z0 w# T! L
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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。 / k( L% e6 E/ C+ ~" R! C 2 w0 ^6 R* B2 i* h8 g: f% J" C5 C& o: ~% R$ Y9 X, P; S- U! m( N July 1, 1997: After 156 years of British rule, China resumes sovereignty over Hong Kong. ' G+ v* e3 [5 k; a: R0 K" c+ U1 [5 T; e6 r5 i+ f % b4 R+ b/ r8 p$ u- f7 yFeb. 19, 2002: Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, appointed by Beijing in 1997 to serve as Hong Kong's first post-colonial leader, is reelected.# l% \* A# k' Z4 b2 t# N
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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. ! f+ ~* G3 s+ S g, C
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2 d4 ^9 f$ ?9 V; R/ p3 j+ U . \' R5 T9 v0 e) j% zEmigration ! ?6 E% K0 b; D/ W; EJittery about political crackdowns and economic slowdown, thousands of Hong Kong residents left town in the years before the handover. 5 }3 o/ B$ T u" R. W * q1 ~) |7 i7 O0 `& ?# C + ?( ?* X2 V" s/ L( o; Y 《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。 / i! A- I( {& [; G) G . x0 f( R1 r' D- P: l9 ?, h+ T# D
《时代》称，港人在争取民主方面的想法过于“实际”。有权投票选行政长官的八百名选委，大部分来自商界，他们普遍认为普选特首会引入平民领导人、令香港变成福利社会；另一方面又怕惹怒中央，影响自身利益。: @" V) J3 Z0 f- j- c9 U% O# I
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A 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. # ^* @6 i" ?/ E+ V
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Victoria 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. , }5 {8 u& R' l( V7 b. a 8 C ? p0 a- q8 A 8 e' l$ i1 G% v6 o6 A' T; w5 I. n
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. ) g# m; I! i* D. C0 T6 _6 r
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) r; b8 c( G0 y& e; M- y2 R- r 3 k) N5 T9 |8 o0 [0 g. tWith its black robes and horsehair wigs, Hong Kong's court system is an obvious inheritance from Britain. Little has changed since the handover. : ^6 H6 G9 I! ^0 N- f2 p; H8 H8 Y3 j! N# `2 S $ P/ @$ g: q% X6 ?
Hong Kong made itself fabulously wealthy by acting as the lone conduit between China and the world, funneling goods and investment in both directions. 5 C( A% M1 q& O- y- J1 ^6 m
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Contrary 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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