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Conventional wisdom maybe – but it’s never the truth

13th September 2021 Emile Woolf 0

Whether it’s the belief that commitment to more infrastructure spending by the state will create more jobs; or that import tariffs are needed to protect domestic industries; or that currency manipulation can boost exports; or [more…]

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Dancing With the Dragon, Part One

18th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

China is one single indivisible territory containing one single indivisible people. It is the most populous nation on earth, the world’s second-biggest economy and has a longer continuous history than any other country – three [more…]

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Hong Kong: Corona Virus, Conspiracy and Control

25th May 2020 Going Postal 0

Hong Kong has apparently had a ‘good’ corona virus pandemic. Cases reported at a little over 1000 are, for a densely populated area of 8 million, modest. The four deaths arising from this very small [more…]

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Authoritarianism

Hong Kong – The whiff of tear gas

28th January 2020 Going Postal 0

There has been something of a lull in Hong Kong recently: Christmas, Calendar New Year and the Lunar New year to come at the end of the week have contributed to a pause in the [more…]

Authoritarianism

Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel

21st November 2019 Going Postal 0

The recent ‘Hong Kong Protests’ piece attracted several comments and questions, but notably ‘Why now?’ and ‘What started this?’ So here is ‘Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel’. A long time ago, during the premiership [more…]

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Hong Kong Protests

9th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Hong Kong in November feels and looks very different than it did in May. The weather is glorious – the wind has changed, the humidity decreased and a very comfortable 25 degrees. But of course [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 14

4th May 2019 Always Worth Saying 0

“Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking we are just commencing our approach into Kai Tak international airport in Hong Kong, the weather is fine, during the approach we’ll have Kowloon City on the [more…]

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