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In the years leading up to Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, Beijing was keen to reassure the world that nothing significant would change in the territory. Business elites and local politicians alike busied themselves with reassuring their foreign counterparts or with seizing on evidence of foreign support for the transition. At the heart of Beijing’s play for