[hedgetrimmer]

I am against the internationalist "free trade system" that is destroying our domestic economy, yes.

Please understand this one point. Hong Kong is NOT a nation. It is a special region or was a territory
of Britain or China. It doesn't function under the same rules as a nation, because it isn't one.
You assert that its prosperity comes from its free market policies, but Hong Kong is just
a shopping mall. It doesn't provide for its own defense, it bases its government on the government
of the nation controlling it. The people there have no independence, they can only do what the country
which has jurisdiction over it says it can do. It really cannot be compared to the US or used as an example
for our own economy because its really just a shopping mall, not a nation!

[mjolnir]

You assert that its prosperity comes from its free market policies, but Hong Kong is just a shopping mall. It doesn't provide for its own defense, it bases its government on the government of the nation controlling it.

So I take it you're claiming that Hong Kong's prosperity is largely based upon the fact that it doesn't have to provide for its own defense?