'This is part of the plan': new train blurs line between China and Hong Kong

   The $11bn high-speed Vibrant Express connects Hong Kong with mainland
   China in 20 minutes for the first time – and the city’s residents are
   nervous
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   planned to help assuage a public nervous about the handover.

   Yet the high-speed rail has done little to rally the public. “The
   difference is that rather than instilling confidence in the population,
   these projects seem to be aggravating the ever-present anxiety in the
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   world’s longest sea bridge.

   The bridge and the high-speed rail connecting Hong Kong to cities such
   as Guangzhou and Shenzhen are part of a broader project to turn Hong
   Kong and nine mainland cities into a super-connected high-tech region
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‘They want us to go to China and work’

   Another goal of the high-speed rail is to bring more Hong Kongers to
   mainland China. Officials have been promoting mainland China as an
   alternative to Hong Kongers struggling with sky-high housing and living