JJ Cowperthwaite and the Hong Kong Economic Miracle
With the border closed and the entrepot trade dying, the question was asked - what was Hong Kong to do to feed and house all its refugees?
The British Government's solution was to consider handing Hong Kong back to China, just at the moment when Uncle Sam had stopped telling them to do that.
There was another idea, though.
Time to introduce a hero of the Right throughout the world, the architect of the Hong Kong Economic Miracle, Sir John James Cowperthwaite: