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Hong Kong’s Mega-Rich Kowtow in Beijing

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Albert
Sep 24, 2014
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On the day this week that thousands of Hong Kong students began a one-week strike in support of more democracy, Beijing was hosting 70 of the territory’s richest people for a meeting to support its political program and denounce those pushing for real democracy.

The contrast between Beijing’s worship of money and the students’ likely doomed hopes for pro…

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