Deng Xiaoping: “what’s happening to my Open Door Policy??” |
Meantime China is indeed closed, less than a thousand per day let in, vs tens of millions pre Covid.
China could close its borders and get by. It's done so in the past, like in the Ming Dynasty. It's big enough to survive.
Does this mean Hong Kong has to follow suit? We don't closely follow China's Zero Covid Policy. But neither are we as open as other countries, even in Asia: Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea.
There's increasing pressure for us to align with the rest of the world. To show that there really are "Two Systems" as well as the "One Country".
Once again, the Post's Beijing rep Wang Xiangwei nails it…