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Quiet optimism about Hong Kong’s ‘breakthrough policy’
Move to make mainland travel easier for Hong Kong’s long-term foreign residents is welcome, but the city cannot rebound without reckoning with its recent past.
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The Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong on July 11, 2024.
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When I recently decided to leave Hong Kong to return to Singapore after living and working in the Chinese city for nearly eight years, the questions I was inundated with were predictable. Why did you move back? Have you finally written off Hong Kong?
I moved back home to be closer to my aged parents, but admittedly that decision was coloured by a cumulative sense of disaffection with Hong Kong’s governance over the past five years.
