Hong Kong’s modern history is a remarkable story: a leasehold on a rock by a colonial empire from a vast and rising power; a lease whose expiry was honoured, creating a strange, unintended and successful experimental outcome. For more than a century, and even since its return from British to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, Hong Kong has combined access to the vast population, business opportunity and culture of China, with British ease of business and the rule of law. Hong Kong grew, and ...
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