A Depressing Visit to ‘Asia’s World City’
Hong Kong continues to slide in all human rights indices
Landing at Hong Kong’s gleaming but virtually empty Chek Lap Kok international airport, as I did recently after a three-year Covid-inspired absence, is to be greeted by the same lustrous city I lived in for 23 years, with its fantastic transport system, its romantic Star Ferry, forests of high-rises, its brillia…
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