Orwell Comes to Hong Kong
The multinationals calling HK home would do well to observe the saga of Jack Ma and Ant
The past week has shown to the Chinese people as well as the world the truly absolutist power of Xi Jinping through a tightly-controlled Communist Party backed by an electronic surveillance system which exceeds even George Orwell’s fiction of the future, 1984.
Most significant for the longer term was the final trashing of Hong Kong’s autonomous status un…
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