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The thoughts of an American expat in Hong Kong living on an "underlying island"
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The Connection Between Opening Ceremony and Hong Kong

Dec 5, 2009
So last night was the opening ceremonies of the East Asian Games in Hong Kong. After watching the first 15 minutes or so, I was straining to understand the connection between what I was seeing and Hong Kong. I stopped watching shortly thereafter and...

CCP Loves Rubber Stamp "Democracy"

Nov 27, 2009
Once again the front page article of the South China Morning Post is of some Beijing Basic Law expert trying to weasel out of fulfilling the Basic Law and not providing for Universal Suffrage. This time it's Rao Geping backing up Chief Secretary Henry...

Health Care Costs

Nov 23, 2009
In 1986 the author Susan Jane Gilman traveled to China with her university classmate, named Claire for the book. The book describes their trip as it went from interesting to near nightmare. The subject of health care in China comes up frequently in the...

Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing And Expecting Different Results

Nov 14, 2009
So when Donald Tsang Yam-kuen tells the people and politicians of Hong Kong to have an open mind, all one can hear is "forget what you read in the Basic Law" and accept that the CCP[?] will never fulfill their treaty obligations or their obligations to...

Book Review: Edge of Empires

Nov 11, 2009
This is a book review that's been sitting in draft stage as a collection of raw quotes and no commentary since mid 2007. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong by John M Carroll, © 2005 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge,...


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