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Article: HONG KONG IS THE REAL KING KONG.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 2, 1997
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Maybe the most important point to keep in mind about Hong Kong is that the heaviest concentration of Chinese troops here is not in the city center to protect the handover ceremony. It's along the border between China and Hong Kong, and those troops are there to keep out the millions of Chinese eager to flock here to become part of Hong Kong. Everything else is just commentary.
That is to say, in the great struggle over who will now influence whom - China or Hong Kong - don't write off Hong Kong so quickly. China is big, but Hong Kong is fast, in a world where speed of adaptation, innovation and production is everything. China is heavy and Hong Kong is light, in a ...