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The Ping Shek Estate has long been a magnet for Instagrammers eager to take photos of the sky framed on all four sides by the apartment complex’s rising residential towers.
Last Friday, hundreds of blood-red Chinese flags appeared on white balconies on two 28-story buildings in the complex. Each Chinese flag is surrounded by two Hong Kong flags, depicting the city’s emblem: a white bauhinia blossom with a star on each petal.
A pro-Beijing association has spread the flags over several housing projects, according to a state-run Hong Kong newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The particularly abundant sea of flags at Ping Shek soon became the talk of the town.
“It’s rare to see this kind of culture in Hong Kong,” said Grace Zhang, a 35-year-old resident who moved to the city from neighboring Guangdong province in mainland China almost a decade ago.
She said her 8-year-old son learned the handover class and that she wanted to take a photo of him to celebrate the occasion.
Lam Yu, a 62-year-old salesman of mechanical engineering equipment, paid a visit to see the flags. He turned his neck and tilted his smartphone into the air to take pictures.
For him, the handover meant an end to being a second-class citizen in his own city, he said, adding that it was difficult to see how people from Britain would get award-winning positions in the civil service while more qualified residents of Hong Kong is overtaken.
Initially fearful about how the Communist Party’s policies would affect the city’s prospects, Mr. Lam said he was finally blown away by China’s economic upswing.
“There is no way you can look at China’s development and not feel proud,” he said. “Unless you consider yourself Chinese.”
However, not everyone seemed to appreciate the display of loyalty to Beijing. Some residents hung up sheets that broke the pattern of flags.
Elsie Leung, a 63-year-old retired security guard, lamented that her building in a neighboring block could not be decorated with flags because residents complained there.
Although several acquaintances of her church have emigrated, she said, she feels positive about the city’s future.
Still it me. Leung felt uneasy about the suppression of freedoms, especially after the closure of independent news outlets and the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen under the National Security Act. The cardinal was a leader in a legal aid organization that provided support to people arrested for protesting.
“If you say the wrong thing, you could be arrested,” she said.
Police said early Sunday morning that they were investigating reports of flags being stolen or stolen from Ping Shek and another complex nearby. No arrests were made, but all the flags had been removed by Monday morning.
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