Hong Kong was always going to be over. It's just yet another relatively small Chinese city, dwarfed in importance by its nearby larger neighbor, Guangzhou. (Yo

Hong Kong was always going to be over. It's just yet another relatively small Chinese city, dwarfed in importance by its nearby larger neighbor, Guangzhou. (You remember Guangzhou, we used to call it 'Canton' as in 'Cantonese' the dialect of Chinese they speak in Hong Kong.) As one of a very few doorways to China by the West, Hong Kong once had some importance. But in today's world the West can reach China by hundreds of 'doorway cities' now. So what's so special about Hong Kong?