The late George Shultz, US secretary of the treasury under former US president Richard Nixon and secretary of state under former US president Ronald Reagan, was one of the finest public servants in recent US history. When I was the last British governor of Hong Kong, he once offered me wise advice about dealing with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Shultz told me that, in his long experience in business and government, Chinese communists always tried to define other countries’ relationship with them entirely on their own terms. They wanted the rest of us to regard our ties with China
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Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat in Hong Kong
Senior clerics see the detentions as a sign China wants to close the Vatican mission
in the territory, while the local diocese attempts to rein in pro-democracy voices
By Greg Torode / Reuters, HONG KONG
In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China.
The mission keeps such a low profile that it is not listed in the Roman Catholic Church’s formal directory of every priest and property in the territory. The two monsignors who staff the outpost have no formal standing with Beijing or the Hong Kong government, and they do not conduct official work, not even meeting Hong Kong officials.
Wisconsin residents outraged over Foxconn upheaval
Families were forced out of Mount Pleasant for a huge high-tech plant, but three years later it still has not been built
By Tom Perkins / The Guardian, MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisconsin
When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill.
The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed high-tech plant owned by Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant that US President Donald Trump had said would soon be the “eighth wonder of the world.”