Hong Kong is Britain's biggest colony and the sterling area's brightest success story, but last year came the riots and people wondered whether China had called in the bailiffs while the lease still had thirty years to run. The three and a half million Chinese, crowded into their capitalist haven of Hong Kong, free from Maoist economics, depend as much on food supplies bought from the mainland as Peking depends on the £200 million or more of valuable foreign exchange provided.
John Tusa reports.