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The Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung

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Hong Kong and the Pandemic

Hong Kong historically played a major role as this intermediary financial in between point between China and the rest of the global capitalist economy. There was previously all this political freedom in Hong Kong but those freedoms have recently been eliminated or severely reduced. What has the recent crackdown and extension of Beijing's control of her Hong Kong meant for Hong Kong's economic position? And what is it meant for the entire Chinese economy sure that is a big topic I have to answer in a very condensed way because I have another book which is 300 pages about this financial politics and protests in Hong Kong.

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