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.
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.
Someone in Hong Kong watched the George Carlin’s bit on golf
Fuck golf
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).
First they came for the golf courses, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a golf course.This is what I mean when I say “free Hong Kong”
Anarchists
socialists"Fuck golf."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?
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
citing ecological
You don’t understand, this unnatural gras monoculture is very important for the environment!!
unfathomably based
Death to America
Lmao the business ghouls have zero case and the angry British vacationers can kick rocks
Opposition even comes from the inner circle of Hong Kong leader John Lee. Lawmaker Regina Ip, who is the convener of the Cabinet, wrote in a social media post in July that the plan severely impacts the development of local golf sports and creates “social divisions, pitting golf enthusiasts against the rest of society”.
You can tell that it’s a former anglo colony because this sounds like what some dipshit anglo official would say
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.
Gods be praised
