Hong Kong's Not That Special, And Beijing Should Stop Saying It Is

As political wrangling in Hong Kong continues over changes to how the city’s chief executive will be selected in 2017, Beijing marks the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Hong Kong Basic Law—the Special Administrative Region’s constitutional document. A recurring theme—both in the electoral reform debate and in the Basic Law celebrations—has been the supposed novelty

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