Don't be so sure that China will swallow up Hong Kong

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......was along the border between China and Hong Kong, and those troops are there...who will now influence whom China or Hong Kong don't write off Hong Kong so...on 1997! So I can make it to Hong Kong. China has promised to treat Hong ...

All eyes on China. (reunification with Hong Kong)

The Economist (US);  June 28, 1997 ;     700+ words ......agents and friends there, Hong Kong offered China a rare vantage point to peer...suggest in public how much Hong Kong depends upon China for its prosperity, as if...hard to imagine that, without Hong Kong, China could have made the strides...

Hong Kong's hazy future.(lack of support from China will likely affect...

The Economist (US);  August 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ......scope of the autonomy given to Hong Kong when China took it back from Britain...put it bluntly, it was not China. Hong Kong's government and businesses...Chinese governments to keep Hong Kong special. China could, for example, show its...

How Hong Kong can change China.(Editorial)(Cover Story)

The Economist (US);  June 28, 1997 ;     700+ words ...THE handover of Hong Kong to China strikes many westerners as a...conventional democratic values. If China offers Hong Kong a mailed fist, a tragedy could...possibility. What if, instead of China taking over Hong Kong, Hong Kong takes over ...

Stakes high in China's hold on Hong Kong

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......it hasn't gone too badly for Hong Kong, which China runs as a "special administrative...China's current confrontation with Hong Kong. China had promised to rule Hong Kong...the liberalizing influence of Hong Kong on China have been renewed, ...

A question of confidence: why China should soften its attitude to Hong...

The Economist (US);  January 6, 1996 ;     700+ words ...When it comes to Hong Kong, Britain and China do not agree about much...risk the two things that China says it wants in Hong Kong: a stable political environment...imaginative and confident China would see Hong Kong as a chance to experiment...

WATCHING WHAT HAPPENS NEXT | THE ISSUE: HONG KONG REVERTS BACK TO CHINA...

News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  June 30, 1997 ;     451 words ......ends tonight when Hong Kong reverts to China. What happens...as much about China's future as about Hong Kong's. Officially, China is committed to...temporarily, intimidate Hong Kong and diminish pressure...liberalization throughout China. But repression...

HONG KONG LOOKS TO CHINA AND WTO

United Press International;  December 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......International 12-19-2001 Hong Kong looks to China and WTO HONG KONG, Dec 19, 2001 (United...China that could pull Hong Kong from its slump. China's Vice-Foreign Trade...free-trade zone between Hong Kong, China's southern city of Shenzhen...

Hong Kong looks to China and WTO.

United Press International;  December 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......China that could pull Hong Kong from its slump. China's Vice-Foreign Trade...free-trade zone between Hong Kong, China's southern city of Shenzhen...Chinese rule. Nearly all of Hong Kong manufacturing moved to southern China in the 1980s as economic...

As sun sets on era, 2 paths dawn in Hong Kong China faces dueling goals:...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 29, 1997 ;     700+ words ......letting Hong Kong be Hong Kong. On the other hand, China is eager to assert its...stakes, not only for Hong Kong, but for all of China and its leadership...sustained prosperity of Hong Kong is in the interest of China." But while Beijing...

China lays down the law for Hong Kong. (Beijing releases first draft of...

U.S. News & World Report;  May 16, 1988 ;     700+ words ......assigns power to interpret Hong Kong's constitution to China's National People's Congress...were all nominated by China, sets out to copy Hong Kong's authoritarian colonial...Appointed lawmakers. China's plan for Hong Kong's future legislature is...

China Wants an Even More Successful Hong Kong

International Herald Tribune;  June 16, 1997 ;     700+ words ......International Herald Tribune 06-16-1997 China wants Hong Kong to be even more successful...transfer of sovereignty to China, Hong Kong will develop representative...make it override all other Hong Kong laws. China objects to this unprecedented...

ECONOMICALLY, HONG KONG AND CHINA ALREADY UNITED.(Editorial)(Column)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 10, 1997 ;     678 words ......self-interest: Hong Kong's economy is now...intertwined with China's. This was not...workers. As a result, Hong Kong is now mostly a service center for China. It is the world...Against this logic is China's intense fear that Hong Kong will become a breeding...

The boring bits: Hong Kong. (relations between Hong Kong and China)

The Economist (US);  July 23, 1994 ;     683 words ......days to July 1st 1997, when China takes over Hong Kong. With less than three years...silence are expected from China, Hong Kong and British officials believe...old-age pension scheme in Hong Kong--which China, currently trying to get rid...

China pins economic hopes on Hong Kong: Capitalist enclave has the...

The Washington Times;  July 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ......in which Britain gave Hong Kong back to China after 156 years of colonial...telephone company. Already, China's investment in Hong Kong is nearly twice that...chief economist of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. China cannot participate in...