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Since the 1997 handover, 879,000 mainland Chinese citizens have settled in Hong Kong, where they now comprise 12 percent of the population. Waves of sociopolitical unrest, including the 2012 anti-national education assembly, the 2014 Umbrella Movement, and the 2019 anti-extradition bill demonstrations, have compounded the levels of anti-Chinese sentiment in the city. Heightened levels of Sinophobia have been largely attributed to Hong Kong citizens’ desire to protect their local identity against a perceived invasion of mainland Chinese culture, language, and values.
Despite the growing Hong Kong-mainland China tensions, President Xi Jinping on October 14, 2020 encouraged Hong Kong citizens to work and live in the Greater Bay Area, in remarks during the 40th anniversary celebration of Shenzhen’s status as a special economic zone. In so doing, Xi hopes to boost the socioeconomic integration of Hong Kong citizens into the motherland. The Greater Bay Area is a megalop
Wendy Kopp
Wendy Kopp is the founder of Teach For America and the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All.
As we enter a new chapter in our nation’s history with a new administration at the helm, we’ll have the chance to reconsider our priorities. One of the most important of these should be to engage in a collective discussion nationally and in local communities about what we’re working toward in education. We need to rethink our very purpose.
As we consider how to tackle the deep polarization of our nation, its systemic injustices, a fast-degrading environment, and growing economic inequality, we need to remember the maxim that what we foster in classrooms today is what we’ll have in the world tomorrow.
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Jan. 4, 2021
In 2017, the National Strategic Housing Plan was approved. This was a major leap forward in planning, as for the first time, Israel tried to assess what its housing needs would be in the coming decades and set targets for the number of apartments to be planned and built. The targets were ambitious: 2.6 million apartments planned and 1.5 million apartments built by 2040, to meet the need to house Israel’s growing population, forecasted to reach 13.2 million by then, or four million more than today.
Israel’s population is growing at the dizzying pace of two percent a year, four times the average of just 0.5 percent in other developed countries. This has many ramifications, one being the need to build a huge number of apartments to house all the Israelis who are going to be born in the coming years. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, by 2050 Israel’s population will hit 15.7 million, a 75-percent increase over the current population; and by 2065,
s continued economic and technological rise,” because it is unstoppable.
Beijing is closing the gap with the US in research and development (R&D)
funding. Americans might not like the idea of being overtaken by China, but
this “milestone” will most likely “be reached within the next decade.”
In this regard “further attempts to stave off that outcome would be not
only futile, but also very costly.”
The author points out that China has “high savings rate
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