Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does it? Scratch a little deeper and you'll see, as I did, the odd nature of these kinds of places. Guantanamo, like Hong Kong or West Berlin, serves many purposes for many people. And few people, Castro included, look like they're in any big hurry...
...SEEMS too unhappy about the only American possession in a Communist country. Castro would probably be quite upset if the U.S. actually took him at his occasional word and pulled up stakes. The situation recalls nothing so much as the Chinese Communists' response to continued British sovereignty over Hong Kong. At first hostile, then complacent, and now accommodative of a "special place" for the Westernized colony in the People's Republic, the leadership of the Chinese Party has found almost every major way to exploit continued Western presence on their land, just as they were once exploited. Propaganda, hard currency...
Winthrop's open house was also dry, prompting several residents to go to the Hong Kong, according to one student...
...following the collapse of a close association with the Soviet Union in ideological wrangling about the true path to Communism, Mao triggered the Cultural Revolution to turn China in on itself once again. "The one constant in China in this century has been change," says Father Laszlo Ladany, a Hong Kong-based analyst of Chinese affairs. "Change is the only certain thing...
...months later, the leadership announced that it was taking a fresh look at the so-called Special Economic Zones, like Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, and Zhuhai, south of Canton. The zones were created in 1979 to attract foreign investment and foster export trade while concentrating foreign influences in coastal areas. Shenzhen, Zhuhai and two other such zones apparently performed less satisfactorily than expected. As a consequence, plans for 14 similar enclaves were scaled back. Where Deng once described Shenzhen as a major element in his economic program, he now talked of it as an "experiment." "We hope it will...