This analysis ignores the fact that the Hong Kong government is incompetent (the restrictions that worked were imposed on the government by social pressure) and the economy was already in a worsening recession because of months of police crackdowns against peaceful protest https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1256437972179668993 …
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I think it is wonderful to draw lessons from Hong Kong's response to this crisis (more people should do it!), but it has to acknowledge the broader within which that response took place. It's an astonishing example of bottom-up leadership in the face of incompetent misrule
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This is almost certainly the case in China, too, but except for a few examples of great individual heroism, we have much less visibility into what happened there.
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If you want to cite an example of a competent government handling this situation in an economy-preserving way, look to Taiwan. Hong Kong is something different.
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Why not South Korea?
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Vietnam, Cuba, Germany, Portugal, Austria, NZ, & Australia all come to mind.
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This was meant to be a thread about Hong Kong, not a comprehensive list of countries who handled the crisis well
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