he new battle for art-market supremacy is on in Asia. Pre-Covid, commercial centers from New Delhi to Tokyo were considered provincial compared to the tax-free, glittering, Chinese and international entrepot of Hong Kong. In recent months, the playing field has shifted thanks to the pandemic and China’s fantasy of conjuring up a zero-Covid reality. Suffocating social-distancing measures implemented across the Middle Kingdom, including in its largest commercial center as well as in its once-glittering appendage in the Pearl River Delta,
