It's Thursday, March 21st, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Sometimes we look at a clash of worldviews and it's about an issue or a clash of one worldview

encountering another and it's often in a geographic location, such as a campus in a city, as we say.

It's more likely you're going to find progressivism on the coast.

So those seas really matter.

Campus, coast, capital, city. That all adds up. But sometimes

it's an entire country and sometimes it's an ideology that is located in one particular place where all of a sudden we see basic reality

revealed. We see why ideas matter. We understand why worlds have consequences.

One of those places right now we can look is Hong Kong.

Because Hong Kong right now

is in a very real sense ground zero for what happens when a communist party in China gains control of

this territory and then basically begins to reshape it in its totalitarian image.

Let's just review history for a moment. reshape it in its totalitarian image.

Let's just review history for a moment.

If you go back during the heyday of the British Empire,

Britain had gained rights for what is known as Hong Kong and that particular place so strategic

there off the coast of China, Hong Kong became a special territory under British

rule.

And furthermore, it flourished under that British rule.

As happened so often in a situation like that, in the British Empire there were enormous

economic incentives to create trade routes and also to establish offices, businesses.

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