Simon Elegant

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.

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...

basically as a single party.

Well, not even basically.

There's only one party that rules Singapore.

The deal is there that you don't make too much of a fuss.

You let us run things.

We even have elections, which, you know, China did experiment with that.

But the deal is the contract, if you want, between the people and the governing party is as long as you give us

Not bred in circumstances, but as long as you give us good education and the ability to have work.

And more importantly, what people I've found is certainly in China, and this is where it would be difficult for them.