Les manifestations contre la libéralisation du commerce mondial semblent déplacées aux yeux des habitants de Hong-kong:
Shouts of "People before profit", "No tariff cuts" and "Down with the WTO" echo through the city that prides itself on being one of the world's major financial centres and a poster child for laissez-faire capitalism.
"Most people in Hong Kong don't understand what they (the anti-free trade protesters) are doing. This is not in their culture. They like free trade," said K.K. Cheung, a 68-year-old retired construction engineer.
Though the territory was handed back by Britain to Communist China in 1997, it has been allowed to keep its freewheeling business ways.
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