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    Hong Kong Deserves Riots and Separation of Powers
    James Tam
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 6 min

    Hong Kong Deserves Riots and Separation of Powers

    Hong Kong’s riots remind me of my late father’s somewhat unorthodox adage: “If a son beats his father, the father deserves it.” I am not t
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    Dissecting the Nouveau Riche
    James Tam
    • Jan 27, 2018
    • 3 min

    Dissecting the Nouveau Riche

    More than 120 million Chinese travel overseas annually. Occasionally, one or two unruly tourists would make headlines, triggering another round of nouveau riche caricature and soul searching. What exactly are the nouveau riche? My on-line dictionary defines the slightly pompous French term as “people who have recently acquired wealth, typically those perceived as ostentatious or lacking in good taste.” At least four subjective terms in this definition — recent, wealth, osten
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