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The High Cost of Elitism

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Philip Bowring
Aug 04, 2006
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Not so, it seems, the political leadership in Hong Kong, which is provided partly by a second or third generation of the ultra-wealthy and partly by a bureaucratic elite. The latter makes a virtue out of spending as little as possible on the community while awarding itself the highest civil-service salaries in the world.

Take this extract from Mr Tang's …

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