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Kin-ming Liu

Hong Kong

Former Washington-based columnist for The Hong Kong Standard, The New York Sun, and Insight on the News, an online weekly published by The Washington Times. Covered economic and political relations between the United States and East Asia, with an emphasis on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association. Currently a business executive at a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong. Close.

Kin-ming Liu

Hong Kong

Former Washington-based columnist for The Hong Kong Standard, The New York Sun, and Insight on the News, an online weekly published by The Washington Times. more »

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May 15, 2008 11:51 AM

Happy Birthday, Israel – and Many More

HONG KONG -- Sixty years ago today (May 15, 1948), David Ben Gurion declared the independence of the State of Israel. Happy Birthday! I hope and believe it will survive to celebrate its 100th. But this is far from certain.

A senior diplomat from Singapore once told me: 50 years from now, Hong Kong, with China the supportive motherland behind it, will still be here. But the Lion City, with neighbors who are not totally friendly, might or might not be around. I think he has a point.

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