We are seeing all the sleek and modern images about China 2025 on social media. Not long ago it looked different. All images copyright ncas_48Photography/NSchmiedeberg

Here some shots from the archives. HongKong 15 or more years ago.

It is not that long ago, if you look at the existence of human kind, that our harbours were a forest of masts. That the salty smell of the sea was overlayed by the smell of the tar, used to fill the gaps in the hulls. Wooden ships now replaced by steel steamers or diesel smelling ocean going apartment blocks.

We live in a world of decline. Decline in species and nature. Decline in values and decencies. Decline in variety of what really is important for humanity and survival. Decline in space and freedom. Decline in human to human to communication in exchange to talk with algorithm. We create a wold of fakes and call it variety. We let machines create where once human creativity prevailed.