Simon Elegant

more royal than the king kind of thing.

They're more Chinese than Beijing because they're trying desperately to prove that they're loyal to Beijing, especially after they've spent 15 years mucking this up in the eyes of Beijing.

And in the end, as I said, the national security law had to be passed in Beijing, not in Hong Kong because the LegCo there couldn't do it.

So yeah, it's really super broad and anything you do where you get out of line, I think I just mentioned that they've even said now restaurants are...

I'm not sure how that applies to cooking skills, but anything they can designate as a violation of national security.

Well, I can maybe, I hope, preserve a little chunk of the place, maybe.

I mean, there are other older books in Hong Kong.

Obviously, James Clavel and John le Carre wrote, I think, a very interesting book, although most of them have been more about the Brits.

And I deliberately did talk to a lot of Hong Kong Chinese and tried to look at it from their side.

I mean, there's a TV series recently that was called The Expats, and I think that's one of the things that's happened often

I mean, there'd be some brilliant nonfiction books that preserved a chunk of the town.

A former reporter colleague of mine in Beijing called Louisa Lim wrote a wonderful book called The Improbable City.

There's a bunch of good ones, but I don't think there are so many in English that do that.

And now you can't do, there's some very good movies, as you know, they have a wonderful movie industry.

But yeah, I would hope to preserve something of it.

Sure.

I mean, I think you're absolutely right.

But I mean, maybe it's more profitable to look at why single-party systems collapse rather than try and give them a lifespan, which is really... I don't think there is a natural lifespan.

I think if you look... Singapore might be a really good comparison.

You know, they're still going since...