[国际新闻] 《时代》25页篇幅认错：回归没令香港死亡

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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。人在德国 社区9 Q$ ^- Z# C/ i% B7 n
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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。% p% h; N5 |1 Z$ S- J( b1 E& }1 d/ [

+ Q9 E; Y* x& h　　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。
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% s9 k. H7 Z) [7 n% U, Urs238848.rs.hosteurope.deJuly 1, 1997: After 156 years of British rule, China resumes sovereignty over Hong Kong.
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" Q+ G/ N) I. r0 ^0 N) {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.
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0 c# {0 y4 ?$ y6 q9 Zrs238848.rs.hosteurope.deMarch 10, 2005: After weeks of rumors, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa abruptly resigns, citing his declining health. 8 G9 [0 |# x9 F' \, Z9 U1 X4 u
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# e: |: Y5 C# u/ Q2 Ers238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe Expat Exodus
/ u7 s- ~4 S, U' j5 y7 `" }; ]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. & E+ ^1 b8 e! w1 z6 ^# n. R
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Jittery about political crackdowns and economic slowdown, thousands of Hong Kong residents left town in the years before the handover. 4 U! \( L. ]+ u. W0 L2 y% O+ m
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　　《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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/ z) Y+ n- {0 |* T) _) s- |　　《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。( \+ i- r3 D$ i0 s. a8 \% F  ]
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! u: W$ ~/ L9 p- c6 ]rs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe People's Liberation Army 人在德国 社区9 E% m% O8 K7 \# U' ^2 ^- f* _- B8 I
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. 0 t5 a. m+ d8 D' k* g. a
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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. 8 \+ c4 M) S; Q/ S" f, J' D
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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. 6 `9 o- y7 w0 l6 d) c5 @

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0 q3 c1 y1 |' [( W# q9 `% n& k9 |rs238848.rs.hosteurope.deWith its black robes and horsehair wigs, Hong Kong's court system is an obvious inheritance from Britain. Little has changed since the handover.
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  J; Y6 x  s9 f; s) ?; C3 Y( ZHong Kong made itself fabulously wealthy by acting as the lone conduit between China and the world, funneling goods and investment in both directions. 人在德国 社区' O; B9 ~* K6 ^1 E  E& f
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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.