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I think some people took it for granted that Communism ending meant all those countries would turn into Western-style free-market liberal democracies, or something like that. Which is rather like the stereotypical British tourist who thinks that all foreigners can understand English if only he...

Maybe the British should have given Hong Kong back to the proper Chinese government, rather than the commie one.

Commie China already has "ghost towns" - cities they built, but never populated. But Hong Kong is something different. Maybe the Grand Poohbear would simply order 8 million mainland Chinese to move there, and take over the identities of the people who left? /joke Well, that sounds like it...

Yeah, they also keep going on about that journalist who was murdered in the Saudi embassy in Turkey. Of course, the case is still going on, but the Al Jazeera people obviously think it important.

We get Al Jazeera news here, and it's been Yemen, Yemen, Yemen...