Hong Kong redux |
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| Authors: | Allan E Goodman |
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| Institution: | Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor of International Affairs , Georgetown University |
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| Abstract: | There are surprises ahead for both Hong Kong and the China of which it will become a part. This article focuses on how the reversion of Hong Kong will affect the future of politics in both societies. Even though rule by Beijing will change Hong Kong's commercial and political life, China will also be changed by having to deal with the emerging elite of Hong Kong and those persons from the mainland who have been educated in the West. This will not produce democracy in either Hong Kong or China but it will reduce the likelihood that China will become a hegemonic power in East Asia. |
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