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20 Years After Handover, Hong Kong Residents Reflect On Life Under Chinese Rule

Great Britain returned Hong Kong to China on June 30, 1997. Since then, Beijing has tightened its political grip and income inequality has grown. But not everyone is unhappy with China's impact.
Over the years, Beijing has tightened its political grip over Hong Kong, a city of more than 7 million people, and income inequality has risen.

In a city as packed as Hong Kong, what's private elsewhere becomes public — like conversations about politics. In the shade of a tree, a middle-aged man in a park tells me he likes China's government and he's not worried about its impact on his city.

Old women sitting on a nearby bench overhear him and shake their heads in unison until

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