【#新聞點評Viewpoint】嚴格來說，香港不是「新柏林」，而是一直都是「柏林」。冷戰時期，歐洲有鐵幕，分隔開北約和華約；亞洲也有竹幕，分隔開各共產政權和自由國家，而香港就是竹幕邊緣的飛地，早有「東方柏林」之稱。文革後，中國和西方維持了近40年的友好接觸，淡化了香港作為共產政權和自由世界共同邊陲的地位。今天，新冷戰重臨，香港不過重作馮婦，再做一次地緣政治衝突的最前線。
Strictly speaking, Hong Kong is not “new Berlin”, because it has always been “Berlin”. During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain separated the NATO and Warsaw camps in Europe; while the Bamboo Curtain demarcated Communist states and Free World in Asia, with Hong Kong situated along the Bamboo Curtain as an enclave and labelled as “Berlin of the East”. After Cultural Revolution, China and the West maintained about 40 years of friendly engagements, overshadowing the position of Hong Kong as an overlapping periphery between Communist states and Free World. Now with a rising New Cold War, Hong Kong has been returned to its original role as a geopolitical forefront.
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▋延伸閱讀 Further reading
「反送中」是一場香港自治運動／方志恒
https://bit.ly/2BSYfOv
The Future of Hong Kong’s Autonomy／Brian C. H. Fong
https://bit.ly/31VUBxV
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