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10.2.12

One Country, Two Systems, Big Problem - IPS ipsnews.net: By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

BEIJING, Feb 9, 2012 (IPS) - A recent series of public spats between Hong Kong locals and mainland Chinese have highlighted escalating tensions between Beijing and the former colony - and heralded in one of the most conspicuous anti-mainland campaigns seen in Hong Kong since the handover.

An outspoken Peking University professor called Hong Kong natives "dogs of British colonialists" last month; in return, protesters in Hong Kong have labelled mainland locals as "locusts".

The clash has called into question the ‘one country, two systems’ formula agreed when Hong Kong was returned to China by the British in 1997 and raised issues about a growing identity crisis in the territory amid China’s increasing global and cultural clout.


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