Freedom in China

I talked today to a local writer who had lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Mainland. Obviously, Hong Kong is the freest place of the three. But when I asked which was the least free, he surprised me: "Singapore."

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I talked today to a local writer who had lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Mainland. Obviously, Hong Kong is the freest place of the three. But when I asked which was the least free, he surprised me: "Singapore." Perhaps, he mused, that's because it's just easier to keep track of 4.5 million people on an island state than over a billion across a vast semi-continent. But still he insisted, it was so.