I read this as although I've no real interest in HKG, never been there either, and that's from choice as it's never appealed to me, I will probably be making a stopover there later in the year on the way to Guangzhou (sp?).
Those of you shot down the person who posted originally, shame on you. First of all he was not the writer, he was quoting a newspaper article, and secondly it was a relevant, sensitively written and well-constructed piece about someone who feels he is about to be driven out of what he considers his homeland by a changing and threatening political climate.
In fact, having read the article, I may decide not to go via HKG (and to save some of you saying that, yes, it won't be a great loss to HKG!)