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Singapore Confidence Exposes Hong Kong’s Failure in Health Crisis

Fearing Beijing, SAR’s government waffles into incompetence

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Philip Bowring
Feb 06, 2020
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Once upon a time, Singapore and Hong Kong were reckoned to have equally efficient governmental systems, among the best in Asia, able to respond quickly and without prompting to new public health and other challenges. They were assumed to have contingency plans and stockpiles of materials. In the case of Hong Kong, having been at the epicenter of the SAR…

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