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2:40 PM MYT HONG KONG (SCMP) known to the world as a model free-market economy, as in Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose TV programme, or a city with a stunning skyline, as in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight – has joined Tibet and Xinjiang as one of China’s human rights trouble spots. Australia, a long-time trade and investment partner of Hong Kong, went out of its way before 1997 to enact a special statute to grant Hong Kong’s economic and trade office in Sydney immunities and priv...