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Now in The Cards: Hong Kong Inc.?

Now in The Cards: Hong Kong Inc.?

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Sep 13, 2007
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Like the Chinese Communist Party, the Hong Kong government increasingly loves slogans such as “big market small government.” But as in George Orwell’s novel 1984, reality is the opposite of the slogan. Increasingly a cash-rich government is moving down the Singapore path of supplanting private capital and initiative with public funds controlled by a cot…

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