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.
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.
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.
I see you tankies are cheering on another genocide against a minority group in China. This is erasure of millionaire and billionaire culture, and you Russian CCP whataboutism bots are cheering for it!
siiiiiigh… tommy need drinky
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
citing ecological
You don’t understand, this unnatural gras monoculture is very important for the environment!!
citing ecological reasons to make their case
motherfucker golf courses are already an affront to god and nature
“It is wrong in today’s climate” to take back part of the golf course, he added, at a time when Hong Kong desperately wants to attract businesses and people from overseas.
Nice fucking word choice, climate, yeah, that’s the word I wanna use.Somehow their poisoned grass fields with zero animal life are environmental
The surface of Venus is technically an environment
I’d also be okay with someone calling their bluff and turning the thing into a nature reserve or park.
The idea of redeveloping golf courses into housing is much more mature in Singapore, where the government laid out a plan in 2014 for how it will balance the need for housing with golfing.
The wealthy clans can’t live without their golf! This is cultural genocide!
balance the need for housing with golfing
ah yes those famously equal needs
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.
Chuds are unironically whinging about 15 minute cities so… yeah, this exactly.
raising questions over whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern to the top leadership.
ughhhh this fucking wording
Do these communists even care about the ultra-wealthy? Is a great line and we should say it more
I knew a guy who was complaining that the Chinese state seized his capital investments. He did not like it when I tried to explain that expecting the communist party to look after your capital and then getting mad when they take it is not reasonable
But also good and I’m glad he’s mad
First they came after the developers, and I said nothing, for I wasn’t a developer. Then they came for the landlords, and I said nothing, for I wasn’t a landlord. …
Why do you say nothing? You should be celebrating!
then they came for the Landlords, and I cheered
oh no I said something: lol, lmao even
Bro do you even care about the super wealthy?!
whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern
WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE PLANET BURNING MONSTERS
This article had us fucking rolling, it reads like a joke news story in a video game. These people are malding so much over their precious golf that they’re stumbling over each other to embarrass themselves about it.
I wonder when the libs from other instances will show up to tell us that golf courses are good acktually
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
FUCK. GOLF.
FUCK. GRASS. IT HAS NO ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE.
HOUSE THE PEOPLE.
No Dirt Owl, you’re supposed to just touch the grass, not fuck it!
Too late I have grass babies now deal with it
Can you please babysit? I hate kids
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
I love the admission that these freaks just go play golf all day instead of doing actual work.
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
I wanna move to Beijing.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).
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.
This is what I mean when I say “free Hong Kong”
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.
