Simon Elegant

The reason that it's still successful economically, despite the fact that Shenzhen, for example, and Guangdong have a greater GDP, but...

Hong Kong has one precious thing which will always make it, which is they have a separate currency and Chinese companies can IPO there and raise money from the rest of the world.

It's incredibly useful, especially because China has already decided they don't want anybody to... They've made most of their companies withdraw their listings in the NYC and so on.

So that will make it their separate currency and their ability to raise a lot of money for their...

Because a lot of people still want to bet on China, right?

But other than that, it's extremely unfree.

Nobody dares to say anything at all.

I mean, I was there reporting a story for The Post maybe a month and a half ago, and I spoke to a guy who was speaking.

I mean, I interviewed him.

a gentleman, a film director who was speaking out.

And it's one of these peculiar things.

I don't know how many people you've run into who are dissidents and prominent dissidents.

And you say to them, what is in the character of somebody like this?

He's courting almost being arrested.

He has not been arrested yet.

The story never ran.

It's fascinating to me, but he's really the only one.

And what other person was there was the head of the Hong Kong Journalist Association.

And she's been speaking out a bit, but even she has been.

It's just too extraordinary.