Treaty for a Lost City – facts or legal myths?


Pedestrians cross a road in the Causeway Bay area in Hong Kong, China, on Sunday, July 31, 2022. - Bloomberg

IS Hong Kong a lost city or being re-born after its baptism of fire?

Hong Kong was always a “borrowed place, borrowed time”, to quote the legendary journalist Richard Hughes (1906-1984), immortalised in John Le Carre’s novels on the intersection of media and espionage in cities like Berlin or Istanbul located at the borderlands of great power conflicts.

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