Hong Kong Sale: Everything Must Go!
July, 1985
As most travelers and shoppers know, the British lease on Hong Kong---extorted during the so-called Opium Wars of the 19th Century--- expires in 1997. Although new accords between Chinese and British negotiators are supposed to ensure an orderly, 50-year-long transition from British to Chinese administration, no one really believes that will be true. The planned stationing of Chinese troops on Hong Kong soil suggests that the erstwhile crown colony's freewheeling, free-enterprise atmosphere may...
