As far as research is concerned, these Hong Kong's universities go head to head against the best universities of the West.
I was doing an undergrad degree, so this may not applies to me then. But I would probably choose US college for research, but then that's just me.
Views aren't everything, she probably gets sponsors. Also, she is huge on Chinese social media networks.
Well, it is if we are talking about YouTube. It works in a very mysterious way, but if your video don't clicks, nobody are going to sponsor you or it would have been extremely small or targeted, the base line for Youtube sponsorship is that manscape thing (You probably heard of it if you watch YouTube) they sponsor everyone as long as you are over 200k sub and over 20m view, again, as I said that's just YT, she may have her income from other source, like Weibo or WeChat. I don't know. If she is making money on Social Media, chances are they are from those type of social media than YT
I don't know about arts but Hong Kong's universities are top-tier when it comes to engineering, data science, finance, fintech and accounting. Their data science and fintech syllabus is as good as their British counterparts and from what I have researched so far, British universities seem to have the best data science syllabus in the world.
I guess that's depends on your field of study, I am not an engineer person, I went the maths/history route because my high school in Hong Kong did not offer AL level computer studies unless you do art program (don't ask me why, but that's what they did) they don't offer computer to science route student.
I grew up mostly in Hong Kong, so I can't really say for sure for an outsider, but as the person who come from the inside, University in Hong Kong is seems to be hard to get in but easy to get out. I know HKUST are ranked quite high in the world, but again, if I have money (Studying in Hong Kong ain't cheap, I remember a year tuition is around 20,000 HKD, but then we have a grant/loan program so I pay nothing) you probably better off in the UK or the US or Australia. I think most foreign people study in Hong Kong probably because of its culture. But again, that's from a person from the inside seeing out, I don't really know the other perspective. If you want to share why or what make you want to study in Hong Kong?