tom dolack, i'm case that i got a game. oh yes. it's a merced maya type. so you, why your legal, that guy we are the men from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24 year since to hand over. it's hong kong that's become more like mainland china. under british rule, the city didn't have a democracy, but it did have robust civil liberties, a well functioning justice system. and one of the free is media environments in the region. the one country to systems agreement was supposed to safeguard this, at least until 2047. and in the initial years after the handover, beijing held up its end of the bargain. that was at least partly because china was unwilling to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. as the british colony on comb had grown into a global financial hub and its thriving port, air links and access to foreign investment enabled china to generate about 20 percent of its g d p to the city. it made economic sense for beijing to be relatively hands off. however, as china grew into an economic superpower in the early 2 thousands, beiji