Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

This is John Bachelor, an exchange between my colleague Gordon Chang and my colleague Fraser Howie about the future for Hong Kong.

After the takeover by the mainland security forces, can Hong Kong prosper again?

Fraser's answer is blunt.

Without the capitalism that was especially discouraging for

that capitalism and investor-class.

Fraser's answer was especially discouraging for Hong Kong,

for a city that was once one of the greats of the planet. This is Fraser Howie,

responding to Gordon's question, can Hong Kong survive?

More of this later tonight.

I hate to give a very short answer, but no, that it's no other path.

It's like I'd love to think that Hong Kong could somehow create something as it were out of nothing, but they can't.

We know in this, particularly for the stock market, their biggest success over the past 20 years or since the handover has been the Hong Kong Connect, which is to use

Hong Kong infrastructure to allow foreigners to trade Chinese mainland shares.

And we haven't seen any Hong Kong companies coming to the fore, we haven't seen any Hong Kong companies coming to the fore.

We haven't seen any use of industry developments there.

It's an economy that's become ever more dependent on China,

and particularly on the financial sector.

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