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Get-well card for Singapore? Keep it for yourself, Hong Kong
The protests are over now. But the city faces a different threat to its allure.
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According to some estimates, some 150,000 Hong Kongers have departed in the past three years.
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A quarter-century ago this month, the chief executive of Cathay Pacific, celebrating the opening of Chek Lap Kok’s airport, joked to me that he perhaps ought to send Singapore a get-well card since its allure was going to be significantly dented because of his home town’s glittering new Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA).
These days, I am inclined to wonder if it is I who should go out and mail those cards to friends and former colleagues in the territory, whose official name is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
