The story about the strong economic growth of Hong Kong exposed the ultra-Kirchnerist journalist Ernesto Tenembaum during his program on Radio Con Vos.
While conversing with Diego Iglesias, who is traveling in China, Tenembaum tried to find the reasons behind the extraordinary development of the city and pointed to a possible planning and socialist measures by the Chinese regime, although he ended up being educated about the economic history and liberalism applied in the great Asian metropolis.
The exchange began when Iglesias described the economic magnitude of Hong Kong and its evolution: "In fact, I arrived in Hong Kong on the plane and crossed the bridge by car. Well, today there are 17 million people here, 46 years later. 46 years later, it is the third city in terms of GDP in all of China."
"If you compare the GDP of China, of this city, just of the city, with that of Argentina, they are almost the same, because the GDP here is 550 billion dollars", the journalist explained.
In light of that data, Tenembaum sought an explanation for such growth. However, his argument was marked by his strong ideological bias, and he ended up discovering a completely different reality.
"Now, what happened? What made that city grow like this? What triggered that? It must be a planned process, right? The Chinese government, because there is little spontaneity in China. The Chinese government decides, there is going to be a big city," he wondered.
