![]() ![]() Hong Kong’s economy exploded with a fresh infusion of tourists, students, shoppers, and immigrants, mostly from the mainland. (In 2007 Fortune ran another story entitled, “Oops! Hong Kong Is Hardly Dead.”) Beijing seemed, at least initially, to honor its promises that Hong Kong could maintain its own legal system and rights of free speech and assembly for fifty years. ![]() Predictions of Hong Kong’s demise proved to be premature. In June 1995 “The Death of Hong Kong” was the cover story of the international edition of Fortune magazine. Antigovernment protesters, Hong Kong, August 2019Īs the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China approached, commentary in the English-language press about the future of the colony was written in the elegiac style of obituaries, extolling the past and lamenting the future.
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