Simon Elegant

No, not accidentally at all.

No, I deliberately want to, I mean, the climax of the book is the day that the national security law is passed, not in Hong Kong.

I mean, I guess for your readers, most people obviously don't follow this that closely, but this struggle between the people of Hong Kong and the pretty incompetent local government trying to do what Beijing wanted them had been going on since 2004, when they first tried to pass this law and the protests were so strong that their chief executive, their, you know, the head of the

the head of the administration had to resign at the time.

So they'd resisted for 15 years at this point.

And basically Beijing was getting pretty exasperated because they really didn't, they just wanted to be left alone, but they didn't want to endanger this issue that I talked about earlier, the golden goose of the IPO and basically the position that Hong Kong played.

So yeah, so it was very much very conscious.

Obviously I changed the name of the chief executive and stuff like that.

But other than that, it was very deliberate.

Yeah.

Sure.

I mean, effectively, you're right.

There's hardly any need to give more of a summary than what you just gave because it criminalizes anything and anything they want effectively.

So even I myself am concerned.

I'm a permanent resident in Hong Kong by virtue of having been born there.

I've been there a couple of times recently.

I'll be interested to see what happens the next time I go.

I don't think they'll pay attention to a piece of fiction because it's smart for them to ignore it.

I mean, if it was a, you know, but in theory, I can, I guess, you know, come under the national security, anything and everything that they deem to be encouraging questioning of the government or the government in Beijing.

And they are now almost...