Hong Kong Seeks to Prove It Can Still Be ‘Asia’s World City’
- As Covid recedes, the city faces life as a changed metropolis
- Communist Party officials are watching closely what happens
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The beer is flowing again at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Racecourse. Music pumps from clubs in the neon-streaked Lan Kwai Fong district. Even the Sevens — the annual rugby extravaganza that’s captured this city’s hyperkinetic lifestyle for decades — is back, finally.
After more than two years under Beijing’s stringent pandemic rules, Hong Kong wants to prove that it can still be “Asia’s World City.”