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cheap jerseys BANGKOK (AP) Hong Kong has been living on borrowed time ever since the British made it a colony nearly 180 years ago, and all the more so after Beijing took control in 1997 and granted it autonomous status.China's passage of a national security law for the city is the latest sign that the 50 year "one country, two systems" arrangement that allowed Hong Kong to keep its own legal, financial and trade regimes is perishable.China's communist leaders have been preparing for decades to take full control of the glittering capitalist oasis, while building up their own trade and financial centers to take Hong Kong's place.For them, national security and patriotism trump the civil liberties that brought millions of Hong Kong residents into the streets last year, hoping to protect their own vision for their future protests that would not be tolerated across the border.In the early 1980s, as China's own economy began to open up to trade and investmen...