Working at Radio Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution was my first introduction to politics in China.
It was a strange, surreal atmosphere, where the British, superbly good at keeping up a front, kept cocktail assignations on the terrace at the Hong Kong Club while quietly marshalling various Scottish and Gurkha regiments to protect the British Crown Colony in the case of an armed incursion from the other side of the border in the New Territory.
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