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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
9. He's been there a long time, I read him there ten years ago.
Tue Aug 12, 2014, 06:41 PM
Aug 2014

I remember the big deal it was when he came out. I've always considered him a Neocon. He has all the marks.

What I'm saying is that in Hong Kong they often antagonize Beijing.

Edit: it's like a little dance, where everybody knows where the boundaries are. They conform on some issues close to home, on others farther away they get to rebel. Hong Kong is rich, and ex-colonial, so it gets away with stuff. They are having an argument right now about who gets to select the leader of Hong Kong. That's why Snowden went there.

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