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Beijing's official mission in Hong Kong, called the Liaison Office of the Central Government; state security agents, thought to number a few thousand; pro-Beijing political parties led by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong; locally-based members of Chinese political organisations such as the National People's Congress, China's parliament; and Beijing-affiliated media, including two party-runnewspapers. The dual track policy Beijing has followed since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 - economic liberalisation coupled with intolerance towards dissent and 'western-style' political values - is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
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Life in the Shadow
ON JULY 1 2017, WHEN BEIJING AND HONG HONG celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the return of sovereignty to the motherland, the special administrative region is likely to become much less special given the leaps-and-bounds growth of megacities along China's eastern 'Gold Coast'.
When the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping first developed the 'one country, two systems' approach for taking back the last jewel of the British Empire, the emphasis was pretty much on the 'two systems'. That is, maintaining Hong Kong's capitalist economic struc...See the full content of this document
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