HONG KONG: Has democracy a future in Hong Kong?*

After three-and-a half-years of Chinese rule, Hong Kong seems little changed by the experience at first glance. Despite the economic downturn of a few years ago, Hong Kong remains one of the economic dynamos of the region as well as a bastion of free enterprise and civil liberties, on the edge of the last great totalitarian state in the world. Many fear, however, that the freedoms and liberties Hong Kong has enjoyed in the past are being slowly eroded, from those within and without who wish to a…

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