Hong Kong’s Endless Road to Democracy
Hong Kong has always been an anomaly even in the context of the very diverse systems by which Britain ruled its numerous territories around the globe. It began and ended as unique despite appearances of being just another small Crown Colony.
The very word colony was a misnomer from the start. As the report of an 1847 British House of Commons Select Commi…
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