Simon Elegant

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 uh but in theory i can i guess you know be uh be come under the national security anything and everything that they deem to be uh encouraging questioning of the government or the government in beijing and they are now almost

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.