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Members pay an entrance fee of about HK$400,000 (S$68,000) and some have been vocal in their opposition to the redevelopment plan, citing ecological, commercial and social reasons to make their case.

Nobody working class is missing out on their golf because of this.

Beijing directly exhorted local officials to fix the problems in the aftermath of the mass protests that rocked the city in 2019, demanding that Hong Kong get rid of so-called cage homes or subdivided apartments by 2049.

Based Beijing.

The decision to build on the golf course also reflects how old business elites in Hong Kong are losing political sway as more staunchly pro-Beijing loyalists gain ground.

sicko-charging

When Beijing’s top official for the city visited it in April, he did not meet the real estate developers association, which represents some of the richest families, raising questions over whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern to the top leadership.

party-sicko

Mr Zeman argued that shrinking the golf course hits at the heart of the way business is done in the city. “A lot of deals are done on the golf course all over the world for business people,” he said.

Fuck off back to your offices and make your deals there you fucking ghouls.

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[–] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Gods be praised

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wtf why is there even a golf course in the first place

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[–] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Here's the course, by the way. It's about a mile long. It has three 18-hole courses.

It should be noted that this isn't in the city of Hong Kong, it's in the relatively less developed north end of the Special Administrative Region, just south of Shenzhen. About a fifth of the course is going to be repossessed, I don't know whether that's of the whole thing or just one of the courses.

[–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is it that the Seattle 'leftists' can't do something like this?

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago
[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder when the libs from other instances will show up to tell us that golf courses are good acktually

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

wow you authoritarian tankies don't want to let people do what they want with their own land, and you in your little echo chambers don't even want to engage the golfers in good faith discussion

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Mr Li Ning, the son-in-law of Hong Kong’s fourth-richest person Lee Shau Kee, attended one such event in June to oppose the plan on the grounds that it would harm the development of golf in Hong Kong, according to local media.

bourgeois spawn cares about the real oppressed minority (golf players).

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

absolutely idiotic to waste any space in the most dense commercial real estate on earth on fucking golf. Go fly to the mainland if you want to play golf dickheads, they at least have land to spare

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Lmao the business ghouls have zero case and the angry British vacationers can kick rocks

[–] Annakah69@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Beijing directly exhorted local officials to fix the problems in the aftermath of the mass protests that rocked the city in 2019, demanding that Hong Kong get rid of so-called cage homes or subdivided apartments by 2049.

You will take safe transportation. You will walk in the park. You WILL NOT live in the pod. And you WILL be happy. nineteeneightyfour

NOOOOO

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Chuds are unironically whinging about 15 minute cities so... yeah, this exactly.

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[–] sicklemode@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago
[–] circuitfarmer 4 points 2 years ago

Hong Kong's real estate situation is unique, to be sure, but I really hope I start seeing more of this kind of thing elsewhere.

It's not that I actually want to see more buildings everywhere. But there are tons of areas with a constant housing crisis. The rich have made sure that policies are in place where they can continue to sit on properties and keep rents high indefinitely while the majority suffer. Maybe new development needing to encroach on their precious rich people spaces could make a difference.

....lol probably not.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Meanwhile Denmark is building a new island for the rich and the speculants. It's gonna fuck everything up and there's no reason to do it. They need to build a new road to support all the trucks delivering polluted dirth thats to be dumped into the ocean. This isdespite everybody being against it AND it being illegal. We just got cod back into the baltic deeper-sadness I wanna move to Beijing.

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