You could see what the residents were having for dinner as your fearless pilot attempted not to ricochet your 747 off balconies where clean white linens dried. A series of bridges, inspired by San Francisco's fabled Golden Gate, link the new airport to Hong Kong. There's also a bullet train. The airport must have cost a billion dollars or more. I heard that the British built it to use up all their cash reserves and keep the cash away from the mainland Chinese.
Rumors abound in that ancient abacus culture that now favors handheld-calculators and cell phones.
Overhead pedways and walkways honeycomb a world that I always felt inspired the film, Blade Runner. And almost none of mainland China leaders. We had dinner with a Chinese professor who tours the world lecturing about e-commerce and venture capital. Regretfully, China cannot allow Hong Kong to compete with the mainland. There is only room for one gateway to China.