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{"source_url": "https://www.nevadacurrent.com", "url": "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/while-hong-kong-protests-for-more-independence-china-smiles-on-macau/", "title": "While Hong Kong protests for more independence, China smiles on Macau", "top_image": "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/macau-venetian.jpg", "meta_img": "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/macau-venetian.jpg", "images": ["https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/aapi-meeting-with-booker-100x70.jpg", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_8356-100x70.jpg", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/about-us-hugh-sq-150x150.jpg", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/themes/nevada-current/images/nevada-current.svg", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CurrentAccess.png", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/themes/nevada-current/images/logo-footer.svg", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/macau-venetian.jpg", "https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/macau-venetian-696x392.jpg", "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=584690842306389&ev=PageView&noscript=1"], "movies": [], "text": "In December while commemorating the 20th anniversary of Portugal handing over Macau to China, President Xi Jinping drew sharp contrasts between Macau and China\u2019s other Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong.\n\n\u201cXi praised the gambling hub for being one of the safest cities in the world, where people \u2018rationally\u2019 express different views,\u201d Reuters reported.\n\nFor six months, people in Hong Kong have been protesting in an escalating struggle for autonomy and human rights.\n\nIn Macau, people are \u2026 not.\n\nAnd Xi is holding up Macau as an example.\n\nMacau \u201cis being primed by President Xi Jinping to become a financial centre, a move seen by Macau\u2019s officials and executives as a reward for having avoided the anti-government protests that have gripped nearby Hong Kong over the past six months,\u201d Al Jazeera reported earlier in December:\n\nWhile the new initiatives were not explicitly linked to toeing the official line, Chinese officials have repeatedly praised Macau for setting an example in maintaining national security and adhering to the central government\u2019s requirements.\n\n\u201cThis is the candy that Hong Kong did not want,\u201d said Larry So, a political commentator and retired Macau university professor. \u201cIt is a gift for Macau, for Macau being a good boy.\u201d\n\nMGM Resorts International, Wynn Resorts, and Las Vegas Sands Corp., along with three Chinese companies, have casinos in Macau, where gambling accounts for 80 percent of government revenue, according to Bloomberg:\n\nMacau\u2019s charter broadly resembles Hong Kong\u2019s, but lacks key provisions such as the goal of selecting the city\u2019s leader \u201cby universal suffrage.\u201d Incoming Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat-seng \u2026 was chosen by 98% of the votes cast by a 400-member election committee\u2026.\n\n\u201cThe messaging is clear to Hong Kong and the rest of the world, but primarily to Hong Kong \u2014 there is a way out, there is an easy and good way out, and it\u2019s called Macau,\u201d said Steve Tsang, director of the University of London\u2019s SOAS China Institute and author of \u201cA Modern History of Hong Kong.\u201d. \u201cBut what they completely and utterly fail to see, is that if Macau is the future, most people in Hong Kong will say, thank you very much, you can keep it for yourself.\u201d\n\nThe Bloomberg report also notes that gambling\u2019s status as Macau\u2019s dominant industry has \u201cprompted criticism, due in part to the criminal activity it has fostered, from loan-sharking and money-laundering to triad fights and prostitution.\u201d\n\nThe tax rate on gambling revenue in Macau is 35 percent. 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