“Welcome our friends from all over the world”, read the signs on Hong Kong school children’s paintings hanging from empty freight containers. The rusting hulks, stacked two high, formed the walls of a fortified compound housing the expensive limousines used to chauffeur dignitaries during the sixth World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Hong Kong in December.
Whether the children’s warm welcome was meant to extend to the eclectic group of non-official visitors to Hong Kong during the conference is debatable.
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