hong kong, obviously, the highest profile one. it was a british colony in china until 1997. in 1997, it was handed over from british control to chinese control with great fanfare. when it got handed over, there still was one other european colony left in china. one owned by portugal of all places. two years after the british handed hong kong over to the chinese, portugal handed over control of his county, which is macau, while its weather and its air quality and to be frank, its scenery ranothing to write home about, it has one untouchable greatest in the world mega asset. gambling. gambling is legal in macau, and gambling is illegal in mainland china. and there are so many people in china that if you can funnel all of them who want to gamble into one nearby place, well, then that place is, well, it s the gambling capital of the world. even though it seems like macau is out in the middle of nowhere, it is within a 90-minute journey for 200 million chinese people who can gambl