Rambunctious Dubai a reminder to Hong Kong – and the world – that democracy is not everything
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While Hong Kong has been unfriended by a West concerned about the city’s democratic freedoms and legal system, Dubai, an absolute monarchy, attracts less hand-wringing. The emirate seems to have borrowed the freewheeling spirit of Hong Kong of old, more crucial to progress than its specific political architecture.