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...With the economy in deep decline and morale slipping, it is unlikely that anybody inside the SAR is going to mount an effective challenge. For sure, there will be no immediate dramatic developments when Article 23 goes into law, any more than there were after July 1, 1997. Beijing knows the value of biding its time, and of letting the gradual erosion of the spirit of freedom take its toll...
...This represents a sad outcome for a territory that had within it the potential to become something extraordinary within the last major state ruled by a Communist Party. Both Beijing and the SAR could have benefited from a true interchange of economies, cultures and societies. Instead, David has quailed before Goliath...
...South Asia: Enemies Within Viewpoint: Morals in Kashmir North Korea: A Bizarre SAR Viewpoint: HK's New Masters...
...shaped Ryugyong Hotel that towers, unfinished, over the Pyongyang skyline. But if it works, new ideas and fresh money could spill over the city's whitewashed walls and cascade across the country's brainwashed citizens. "Once this succeeds," says a confident Yang, the new chief executive of the Sinuiju SAR, "the whole country may be open...
...Then again, Sinuiju's chief executive has credibility issues of his own. Yang, who says he has small agriculture-related holdings in North Korea, was told by government officials during a January business trip to Pyongyang that Kim had hand-picked him to run the SAR. On the mainland, Yang's fortune is rooted in an orchid seedling business he built into Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) Co., which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A hardy perennial himself, Yang was orphaned at five, graduated from China's naval academy and, after winning a scholarship to study...