Border between Hong Kong and China

I should probably post this to let you see a bit of what Hong Kong faces everyday. It's really interesting how an invisible line established to sustain order has repercussions at various levels such as economic, social, etc... and how one side of the line is privileged while the other faces hardship. Despite the fact that our territory has been ceded by Great Britain over to China (another story), it has been nearly 10 years since the handover and things are still kept fairly separate.
If you read the article you'll see why total and instant assimilation of Hong Kong into China's systems can wreak havoc! Not good...

Some statistics...

Not so much an article... just some statistics about the numbers of people that cross the border. Imagine how many people will go through the checks that happen at the border, especially now that security is tightening and that people will require passports.

The numbers are in thousands. So the first figure is 30.66 million.

New Border Crossing coming soon?

http://cns.jrn.msu.edu/articles/2004_0319/CROSSING.html

This article discusses about the potential of constructing a new bridge or tunnel to link Detroit with Canada within the next ten years.

Your e-mails: 'A nation of immigrants'

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/15/emails.immigration/index.html