Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated
Edition number counted from The World in 1987 = 1. Publication month not confirmed; year only. The reprint is The Economist's own web copy of the original article. A guest article by the last British governor; it states hopes and regrets, not The Economist's predictions.
a “bloody mess” when Hong Kong was returned to China (in 1997)
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