Monday 29 September 2014

Flags Not Flagging

Parts of Hong Kong, the source of our love affair with Cantonese food, were British for 155 years. None of Hong Kong was British for fewer than 99 years. The divergence from China is total.

All countries start somehow, even in circumstances as improbable as those which created Hong Kong, or Pakistan, or Northern Ireland, or a distinct political entity and culture in the Gaza Strip.

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