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I have recently been in Seoul to attend a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS). En route I visited Hong Kong and Taipei. They all live in the shadow of the Chinese dragon, whose hegemonic intentions are clear from President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines reporting he had to stop drilling in the South China Sea when China threatened war. In Hong Kong we had seen the student Umbrella Revolution in 2014 from our hotel room in Kowloon demanding democratic elections which were thwarted by the mainland. More recently, Zhang Dejiang, the Chinese official overseeing Hong Kong, has stated
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