双语新闻:破除西方谬论!英国学者对香港困境的分析太透彻,全程( 三 )

但他认为 , 在很大程度上 , 这是对历史的一种严重误解(a serious misinterpretation of history) 。

香港在上世纪70年代末和1997年回归之间表现不错 , 那仅仅是因为它走运了(it got lucky) 。

他是这样分析的:

It got lucky because Chinese mainland in 1978 started to open up, bit by bit, step by step. It didn't open up fully until after the WTO agreement in 2001. So while it was still opening up in a piecemeal fashion, Hong Kong could take on some of the functions Chinese mainland otherwise would have done.


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