“HORSES will continue to race. Stock dealers will continue to trade. Dancing parties will go on.”
This was the pledge made by China’s late visionary leader Deng Xiaoping to capitalist Hong Kong. It was meant to ease the islanders’ fears before the handover of the Pearl of the Orient from British to China on July 1, 1997.
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