China pet project could dog Macau

Development of Guangdong Province’s neighboring Hengqin island is supposed to make Macau a bigger tourist draw. But this pet project of President Xi Jinping could compete with Macau without policy changes to let visitors flow freely over the border.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.

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