China's Love Affair with a Hong Kong Tycoon

Symbolism matters, perhaps more in China than elsewhere. So what message was China's President Hu Jintao sending when he gave Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, an extraordinarily privileged role at a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, whose growth from paddy fields across the border from Hong Kong to a popul…