THE neo-liberal order, of which Hong Kong and many Asians are believers, is founded on free markets and an important social contract: that the state and the market will take care of the individual citizen.
The coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic raises a fundamental question whether society can take care of the individual as promised under the social contract?
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