Shocking story from Hong Kong, one of the freest countries on earth.
For a century, Hong Kong was a British colony. It has a British style court system (complete with jury trials), protections for property rights, and relatively free markets.
Hong Kong attracted millions of ethnic Chinese who fled the mainland. Over time, the average resident of Hong Kong (who are the same race as those in China) became a hundred times wealthier than the average resident of China.
But China retook the Island a decade ago.
Now it appears that China may be cracking down on free speech and press in Hong Kong. Booksellers who sell books critical of Chinese officials–books that are banned in mainland China and popular with Chinese tourists–are apparently going missing.
