Synopsis
Dan Snow investigates Hong Kong's precarious relationship with China.
- Programme: World's Busiest Cities
- Series: 1
- Episode: Hong Kong
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Geography | Globalisation, trade and interdependence | Globalisation and global trade | Globalisation
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