[MadIvan]

Go to Hong Kong. You'll find that even Falun Gong is allowed to practice freely in HK. The legacy of Empire does have its benefits. Then see how free trade works for them. Maybe, just maybe, you'll get educated.

Though I doubt it.

Ivan

[Arator]

Go to Hong Kong. Then see how free trade works for them.

If I go, I will see, hear, and read exactly what the ChiComs want me to see, hear, and read.

Material wealth is meaningless when the soul is caged.

That you regard ChiCom ruled Hong Kong as some sort of social ideal tells me all I need to know about you. You are, aparently, a materialist to the core. You measure everything by the less than mightly Eurodollar. The false god GDP is the only god you care to "worship", to the extent you worship anything. Your politics teeters precariously on this foundational error. As such, it takes little force to knock the entire creaking edifice down.

[Arator]

less than mightly Eurodollar

Make that "less than almighty Eurodollar".