想像所谓"一国两制"的悲惨结局不再是不可能的事情。香港人不想安静的投降。中共被周五开始的一个非官方的公投激怒。这个公投调查香港人的民主抱负。北京将它贴上"非法"的标签，迄今将近70万香港人警告北京让步。
中国需要变得更像香港，而不是相反。中共官员在谈论调整经济结构，创造生机勃勃的和创新的服务业。这个过程一个关键的部份将是激励更多的年轻人冒险和拥抱创新。但是这要求一个允许真正辩论，创造性和反主流话语的环境。
当世界其他地方用来点燃思想和打乱自满的工具―新闻自由，无惧大胆思考的学术环境，谷歌，脸书和推特―被禁止，这一切怎么可能发生？
香港不需要向北京学习。一个世界上经济最自由的地方无法从自我审查，所谓"爱国"教育和不透明当中获得什么。如果中共继续搅浑财政透明度，质疑香港的法庭独立并迫使外国经济学家审查他们自己，那么香港将落败。中共必须容纳香港的随心所欲的精神，而不是铲除它。
在上周的一篇评论文章当中，官媒《中国日报》将香港的民主梦比做一个贪婪的渔夫的妻子。贪婪？只因为他们渴望更好的地方领导人？这种傲慢的言论只会驱动越来越多的香港人走进活动人士的阵营。
在周五晚上，"占领中环"领导人们在市中心合唱"你听到人们歌唱吗"，它来自于《悲惨世界》歌剧。
如果北京当局走得太远，那么数百万更多的人将添加他们的声音到这个大合唱当中，他们世界级的经济体系将悲惨的完全死于北京之手。
（责任编辑：孙芸）
Bloomberg View: Is This the Death of Hong Kong?
Perhaps rumors of Hong Kong's demise weren't exaggerated after all.
Nineteen years ago this month, Fortune ran its infamous "Death of Hong Kong" cover. By 2007, the magazine had changed its tune, deciding, in the Mark Twain sense, that it had been "wrong"and that "reports of Hong Kong's death have been greatly exaggerated." Given recent events, however, Fortune's initial prediction that Beijing's meddling would cost Hong Kong its pivotal role in the world may have been spot on.
Take this month's unnerving white paper from China’s State Council, which asserted that Beijing's interests took precedence over Hong Kong's. Its characterization of those who didn't want to live in a Communist society as “confused or lopsided” was as bizarre as it was chilling.So was its suggestion that Hong Kong courts effectively need to ask "what would Mao Zedong do?" before making decisions.The upshot: Hong Kong's 7 million citizens can forget about being truly free to pick their own leader in 2017, as Beijing had led them to believe would happen.
It's no longer impossible to imagine the end of the “One Country, Two Systems” policy China agreed to after the U.K.returned the territory in 1997. And Hong Kongers don't intend to surrender quietly. China is enraged by an unofficial online poll on Hong Kong democratic ambitions that's been taking place since Friday. What Beijing has labeled an illegal vote, nearly 700,000 Hong Kongers so far have embraced to tell Beijing to back off.
This is nothing if not an own goal by Xi Jinping. China needs to become more like Hong Kong, not the other way around.What Chinese officials mean when they talk about rebalancing China away from exports and unproductive investment is creating a vibrant and innovative service sector. A key part of that process will be inspiring more young Chinese to take risks and embrace innovation like Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba. But that requires an environment conducive to true debate, creative destruction and more than a little countercultural discourse. How is that possible when the tools the rest of the world uses to spark thought and disrupt complacency -- a free press, academics unafraid of thinking aloud, Google,Facebook and Twitter -- are banned?
Hong Kong has nothing to learn from Beijing. An economy consistently rated the world's freest has zero to gain from the self-censorship, patriotic education and opacity China increasingly wants to impose across the Pearl River. If China continues to muddle financial transparency, call into question the independence of Hong Kong's courts and force expatriate economists to censor themselves, Singapore wins -- not Hong Kong's people. China must incorporate Hong Kong's freewheeling ethos, not stamp it out.
In an opinion piece last week, state-backed China Daily likened Hong Kong's democratic dreams to a fable about a greedy fisherman’s wife who wished for too much. Greedy? Because they crave better local leaders?That kind of arrogant rhetoric is only driving more and more Hong Kongers into the activists' camp, reports my Bloomberg colleague Natasha Khan. On Friday night, "Occupy Central," Hong Kong's answer Occupy Wall Street, led a sing-along downtown of “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables. If Xi pushes too far, millions more will add their voices to that chorus, miserable that their world-class economic system died a death entirely of Beijing's making.
from 参考消息@无所不坛 http://janadabc.blogspot.com/2014/06/g4g_23.html
