New Flag Of Hong Kong

The design of the flag portrays the political.

New flag of hong kong. The flag features a stylized five petaled white orchid flower against a red background. Demonstrators have also thrown the chinese national flag into the sea irking beijing. Before hong kong s transfer of sovereignty between 20 may 1987 and 31 march 1988 a contest was held amongst hong kong residents to help choose a flag for post colonial hong kong with 7 147 design submissions in which 4 489 submissions were about flag designs. At any given demonstration one might see the black bauhinia flag the hong kong independence flag the liberate hong kong revolution of our time flag the city s colonial era flag the flags of other countries usually the us and the uk or a combination of the above.

The colonial flags were replaced by the chinese national flag and a new standard for hong kong that had been designed in the mid 1990s and which was later modified slightly. New purple flag warning protesters about breaking national security law used by hong kong police if we do a stop and search and find banned items on a person we can arrest them immediately. Protesters on july 1 stormed the legislature defaced hong kong s official emblem and unfurled a colonial flag. The flag of hong kong symbolizes the one country two systems philosophy following the city s reunion with the republic of china.

The first arrest for an alleged national security crime was carried out shortly before 2pm when the police detained a man with a hong kong independence flag confirming that certain political. Hœ ːŋ kɔ ːŋ officially the hong kong special administrative region of the people s republic of china hksar is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the people s republic of china on the eastern pearl river delta of the south china sea with over 7 5 million people of various nationalities. Previously it had appeared on colonial stamps and coins. A purple warning flag the police have long used color coded banners to warn demonstrators but the wording on the new flag was a stark reminder of the.

The flag s symbolic flower is derived from the bauhinia blakeana widely referred to as the hong kong orchid tree. Hong kong s new weapon against protesters. On september 15 the us state department upgraded its travel warning to hong kong saying the new law exposed american citizens who had been publicly critical of beijing to a greater risk of.