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No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.
East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future (1998)
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.
East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future (1998)
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Asians...put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future (1998)
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
It's obviously an issue [democracy] which is hugely important to a new generation.
It matters to everyone [sic] of us that the press tell it as it is, not as the government wants us to hear.
[M]y anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Beijing, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.
Xi Jinping and his court have regarded Hong Kong and Hong Kong's freedoms as an existential problem for them because Hong Kong represents so much of what they dislike.