Simon Elegant

And so it is very, very sad.

It had a great thing.

I think I get into it in the book that they had an extraordinary arrangement

with this benign administration by the brits who did a pretty good job of just backing off you know milton friedman admired the economic arrangement a great deal um it just worked it worked for really well so they ended up with a fantastic corruption free civil service they have the longest lived people in the world longer lived than the japanese they had a great medical system medical insurance probably

It just was a place that worked and people were pretty happy and extremely, as you know, productive.

Really good entrepreneurs.

Yeah, so it is sad.

Yes, I would say that's definitely accurate that there's an element of goodbye to that.

So you're getting a little bit of CCP propaganda nonsense in force, but only a little bit.

They have international schools.

So they've got a Hong Kong international school, a

various Brit schools are set up there.

So there's a restricted element, but anybody who goes to the regular day-to-day, which my protagonist does because he's a Caucasian, but he was basically raised as another Hong Konger.

Those people are getting the full bore, history, everything shoved down their throat.

That's one of the places they targeted first was teachers.

They really enforce that very... They understand this stuff.

Anthony, they're really good at the Communist Party.

They really get what they have to do and what they have to stop people from doing.

He is, as I have said, his father was one of the many Brits who, there used to be a phrase, I don't know if you heard it when you were in Hong Kong, called filth, which was failed in London, try Hong Kong.

And a lot of, I mean, one of the extraordinary thing about Hong Kong was a lot of quote unquote second rate people came out from Britain, but they seem to do very well.