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A strong and clear analysis of how the British government has worked closely with the Communist Chinese to stifle the establishment of democracy in the last of its major colonies. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Wall Street Journal Asia * His well-wrought and inarguable conclusion: perfidious Albion (i.e., Britain) more or less sold out Hong Kong to the dictatorship in Beijing. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Booklist * ...a brief and lucid account of a dauntingly intricate geopolitical dance of death. McGurn knows his subject intimately.... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * The American Spectator * ...sounds the alarm over Hong Kong's future...this is a useful if polemical primer on the issue Americans should pay more heed. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Library Journal * McGurn, in this well-written book, spared no mercy in his sustained attack on British hypocrisy....The sense of helplessness is well captured... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Pacific Affairs * Mr. McGurn's analysis makes a lot of sense...a delight to read with its masterful and grimly amusing dissection of London's strategy. * Wall Street Journal Asia * A strong and clear analysis of how the British government has worked closely with the Communist Chinese to stifle the establishment of democracy in the last of its major colonies. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Wall Street Journal Asia * His well-wrought and inarguable conclusion: perfidious Albion (i.e., Britain) more or less sold out Hong Kong to the dictatorship in Beijing. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Booklist * ...a brief and lucid account of a dauntingly intricate geopolitical dance of death. McGurn knows his subject intimately.... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * The American Spectator * ...sounds the alarm over Hong Kong's future...this is a useful if polemical primer on the issue Americans should pay more heed. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Library Journal * McGurn, in this well-written book, spared no mercy in his sustained attack on British hypocrisy....The sense of helplessness is well captured... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement * Pacific Affairs *

A strong and clear analysis of how the British government has worked closely with the Communist Chinese to stifle the establishment of democracy in the last of its major colonies. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Asian Wall Street Journal His well-wrought and inarguable conclusion: perfidious Albion (i.e., Britain) more or less sold out Hong Kong to the dictatorship in Beijing. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Booklist ...a brief and lucid account of a dauntingly intricate geopolitical dance of death. McGurn knows his subject intimately... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement The American Spectator ...sounds the alarm over Hong Kong's future...this is a useful if polemical primer on the issue Americans should pay more heed. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Library Journal McGurn, in this well-written book, spared no mercy in his sustained attack on British hypocrisy...The sense of helplessness is well captured... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Pacific Affairs Mr. McGurn's analysis makes a lot of sense...a delight to read with its masterful and grimly amusing dissection of London's strategy. Asian Wall Street Journal A strong and clear analysis of how the British government has worked closely with the Communist Chinese to stifle the establishment of democracy in the last of its major colonies. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Asian Wall Street Journal His well-wrought and inarguable conclusion: perfidious Albion (i.e., Britain) more or less sold out Hong Kong to the dictatorship in Beijing. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Booklist ...a brief and lucid account of a dauntingly intricate geopolitical dance of death. McGurn knows his subject intimately... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement The American Spectator ...sounds the alarm over Hong Kong's future...this is a useful if polemical primer on the issue Americans should pay more heed. -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Library Journal McGurn, in this well-written book, spared no mercy in his sustained attack on British hypocrisy...The sense of helplessness is well captured... -- Martin Lee, Leader, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement Pacific Affairs

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William McGurn, Washington bureau chief of National Review, has been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Europe and the Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.

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