1966: Chairman Mao is the Red Sun of Our Hearts

This day, 1 October, mainland China celebrates the formal establishment, in 1949, of the People's Republic of China. No public holiday hereabouts -- remember: one country, two systems -- although [I sit corrected, it's National Day -- PRC flags] and red lanterns do bedeck a little island in the South China Sea's dai pai dongs, the civic waterfront and several squares.
The public square just away from the ferry terminal has almost everything in place for some sort of official flag-raising ceremony, including two flagpoles. Most likely, the PRC flag hauled up the taller one, Hong Kong's Bahunia flag fluttering from the short. No doubt new-found patriots of the motherland will be much in view.
Mister Bijou, who was once, briefly, a member of a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist London-based groupuscule, has fond memory of his invitation and visit in 1969 to the Chinese Embassy in London's Portland Place. As Comrade Mao said: "Imperialism and All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers". But that was so 20th century. In the freedom-lovin' 21st, Mister Bijou thinks it would be inelegant to brandish his Little Red Book during today's ceremony.