I extend to you and to all Americans an open invitation to visit our home, to experience our hospitality, and to join hands with us across the Pacific to forge an even greater friendship than that which we already know and we cherish. Mr. President, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Chief Executive Tung, Mrs. Tung, members of your government and citizens of Hong Kong. Hillary and I and our delegation, including several members of the United States Congress and members of our Cabinet and other Americans, are all delighted to be here tonight. Hong Kong is a world symbol of trade, enterprise, freedom, and global interdependence.
Visitors come here for fashion and food.
The world consumes your electronics products and your movies. And every American who has ever wanted to travel anywhere, has wanted to come to Hong Kong. This is, it is true, the first visit to Hong Kong of a President, and a fortuitous one for me that I can come and wish all of you a happy anniversary, but it is not my first trip to Hong Kong. Much has changed since we were last year more than 10 years ago now. Of course, a great city is never finished.