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Hong Kong and Singapore: Uncertain Future

Hong Kong and Singapore: Uncertain Future

Built on colonial imperialism, their reason for existence may be threatened

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Philip Bowring
Jan 22, 2020
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Singapore is, naturally, expecting some benefit from Hong Kong’s struggle to maintain its independence from China, which seems destined to continue for a while longer. Some businesses, some money, will decamp southward, the amount depending less on Singapore’s pull than what happens to faith in Hong Kong as a separate jurisdiction free of Beijing’s thre…

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