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Cold War is a 2012 Hong Kong police procedural action thriller film directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung, starring Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka-fai, and guest starring Andy Lau. The film was selected as the opening film at the 17th Busan International Film Festival and released in Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China on 8 November ...
Cold War 2 is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese police procedural action thriller film written and directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk.
Oct 30, 2023 · Hong Kong’s ideological makeup is now in flux. Long taken for granted for its liminal position between China and the rest of the world, the city had found itself at the frontline of Cold War-style geopolitical rivalries between China and the West since 2019.
Mar 16, 2024 · From the Cold War to the post-Cold War, Hong Kong’s geopolitical neutrality not only attracted tremendous inflows of capital and talents, but it also enabled the city to be developed into a...
The Cold War was a distinct and crucial period in Hong Kong’s evolution and in its relations with China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong was a window through which the West could monitor what was happening in China and an outlet that China could use to keep in touch with the outside world.
When the British position in Hong Kong became problematic during the 1967 riots, the United States—admittedly embroiled in the Vietnam War—was sedulously noncommittal as to just what actions it might take, should the situation escalate to the point where British rule in Hong Kong was in jeopardy.
During the early Cold War years, the United States came to regard the British colony of Hong Kong as an outpost of its own in terms of relations with the People’s Republic of China. Sharing a border with New China, Hong Kong became an arena for both the Cold War between East and West and the conflict between Communist and Nationalist Chinese.
