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http://edition.cnn.com/2002/BUSINESS/asia/05/03/hk.future/index.html                              Who Needs Hong Kong?
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/25/Hongkong.woes/index.html            Gloomy forecast for Hong Kong democracy

 

http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/hk2002/   The Archive of Time magazine in 2002.  All the links work except those from Fortune magazine.  But you can have them on the above links.

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Before 1997,Fortune magazine predicted “the death of Hong Kong”.  In 2002, 5 years later, Fortune again doubting the future of Hong Kong, posed the question “Who needs Hong Kong?”.  And then, 10 years later, you have this issue, right?  http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1630244_1630240_1630206,00.html
—The latest prediction is “Hong Kong’s Future: Sunshine, with Clouds”.  And they again admit “TIME’s sister magazine FORTUNE once infamously, and incorrectly, predicted that its return to China would bring about its death.”
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