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    In Hong Kong, tributes to Elizabeth seen as veiled jab at China

    TAIPEI, Taiwan — Outside the British Consulate in Hong Kong this week, bouquets and handwritten tributes piled up as a long line of people waited in sweltering heat to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II. In the onetime British colony, the death of a monarch who served as a living link to Britain’s globe-spanning empire marked a complicated historical moment. The colonial era that ...
    by Stephanie Yang and David Shen, Los Angeles Times Sep 17, 2022 4 minutes
    People gather next to flowers placed as a tribute outside the British Consulate in Hong Kong on Sept. 12, 2022, following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.

    TAIPEI, Taiwan — Outside the British Consulate in Hong Kong this week, bouquets and handwritten tributes piled up as a long line of people waited in sweltering heat to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II.

    In the onetime British colony, the death of a monarch who served as a living link to Britain’s globe-spanning empire marked a complicated historical moment.

    The colonial era that ended a quarter-century ago in Hong Kong was characterized by racism, injustice and corruption. But for many, Elizabeth’s death last week at 96 was also a reminder of the heavy Beijing hand that has supplanted British rule.

    As the traditional Chinese mid-autumn Moon

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