> Singapore also I gather, has remnants of the old imperial currency board
> system.
>
Chris, you're a monument like the Beefeaters, the Tower, Nelson's
Column, fish and chips etc. It's really charming that you think
what saved Hongkong was the old imperial currency board system. Those
of us still hanging to the tatters of Marx's frock coat,
however, still think that the presence of 500m ill-paid peons in the
backyard might have helped a little; that and the criminality of
Beijing's kleptocrats who have used Hong Kong to found their fortunes
for 30 years now.
-- Mark Jones http://www.geocities.com/~comparty