To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. This blog's Christmas message reflected on what has happened to Hong Kong over the last couple of years. That subject dovetails well with my most recent blog post, The China Thrill Is Gone. In that post, I described how Xi Jinping's rise to power coincided with growing pessimism on my part regarding China's future, eventually leading me to leave the Mainland for Hong Kong. And then, as I said in the post, they came for Hong Kong. For most of my time living in Hong Kong (over three different