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How China changed Hong Kong

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s 20 years since the British handed the island and adjacent territory back to the mainland. Breakingviews’ Asia columnists explain how Hong Kong’s economy and society have changed and ask whether this once-dominant regional financial center can regain some of its lost luster. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.6

Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly conversation among Breaking Views columnists about the ups and downs of the world of finance.

0:48.6

I'm Jennifer Sabah.

0:50.4

July 1st marks the 20th anniversary when Great Britain handed Hong Kong back to China.

0:55.6

In this edition, Breaking View's editors and columnists from Asia will discuss the ex-colonial

1:00.5

cities relation to the mainland over the past two decades and what's in store going forward.

1:06.6

Here are our colleagues in Asia.

1:10.2

Hello, Viewroom listeners.

1:12.6

Welcome to Hong Kong.

1:13.6

I'm Pete Sweeney, Asia editor of Breaking Views here, and I'm excited for my first All-Asia

1:17.6

edition of the Views Room podcast.

1:19.6

To those of you not following the news quite as closely as we do here,

1:23.6

Hong Kong is celebrating its 20th anniversary of reunification with the Chinese mainland

1:27.5

under an arrangement called One Country Two Systems. That means that Hong Kong got to keep,

1:32.6

for the most part, its legal system and some of the political freedoms, including the freedom

1:36.6

of speech, vigorous debate over politics. China's president Xi Jinping was just in town

1:42.8

over the weekend, joining the party.

1:45.0

He stood with, well, him in Chief Executive Kerry Lamb, who was just elected,

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