Hong Kong's Incredible Official Statement on Snowden's Departure

[JDPriestly]

71. We need to rethink our economic strategy.

The dominance of our financial sector is a really bad sign of a crumbling economic infrastructure.

We have to do what every nation has to do -- make and produce most of our own stuff and our own food. We have become an import economy which means we are dependent on secure trade routes for our daily bread, the socks and shoes we wear and the coats we wrap ourselves in during the winter.

That is a far greater threat to our country than the terrorists ever could be. But it is a huge source of strength for the multinational companies that import our necessities to us and that either through investment networks or other means actually own and control the military/industrial production that still, to a small extent, exists in within our borders.

We are completely dependent on our military power. We have to have military power just to insure that shipments of fabric for making clothes get imported into our country.

I can't imagine that we could be any weaker economically than we are. But the media in general never talks about this.