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What Happened to Hong Kong?

The wheels come off a freewheeling city

Sep 27, 2022
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By: Anthony Spaeth

There’s the old joke about the British couple flying to Hong Kong to visit their son. The son can’t meet them at the airport — “Work!” — but there’s no easier place to arrive than Hong Kong. All they have to do is take the Airport Express to Central, go to the Macau Ferry Pier, look across the road for a McDonalds, go up that street, s…

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