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Show outside world an open door for technology, ideas and goods that are predominantly American in origin. The American influence is obvious everywhere. Hong Kong's skyscrapers alien to. say. London would blend harmoniously into New York or Houston. while McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets vie for business. An unseen American influence reaches are also increasing, amounting to 12 percent of the Colonys purchases abroad. But Hong Kong's chief significance to the U.S. is intangible. The territory not only has realized the American dream of raising itself by its own bootstraps, but it also has become a major influence in Southeast Asia. The flow of talent and finance through Hong Kong has greatly strengthened all of Southeast 201 RECIPES FOR TWO You don't have to divide recipes meant tor six servings or eat the same casserole three nights in a row. Not any more. Just take your pick from among the more than 201 recipes in Cooking For Two. 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Typically American in theirbounding optimism, such dreams of transforming China flourish amid the uncertainty.cre-ate- d by the Communists. Those ambitious projects could ultimately preserve Hong Kongs autonomy by enhancing the territorys enormous utility to Peking and by demonstrating that this utility depends upon preserving Hong Kongs present form. For example, the Chinese could earn no foreign exchange by selling electricity to Hong Kong if it became a uniform part of China. Nor could they expect sufficient traffic to n turnamortize the Hong substantial less earn much profits. pike. Meanwhile, the U.S. consumer can be grateful to Hong Kong for an abundance of inexpensive but goods from clothing to electronic components. more than S5 billion worth annually. 40 percent of Hong Kongs exports. Hong Kong imports from the U.S. Kong-Canto- high-quali- ty Asia and improved relations between Washington and China, a major counterweight to Soviet expansionism. It is, perhaps, unfashionable to talk of inspiration in these utilitarian times. Yet the achievement of Hong Kong in making a home for 6 million persons on a barren rock by sheer hard work and untrammeled enterprise must inspire Americans. That great achievement is now mortally threatened. My friend Mr. Wang does not know what will become of him if confidence declines further and the economy, now tentatively resurgent, along with it. Nor does he know what will become of his children should the Communists radically alter, the structure of the Colony. Already, a hemorrhage of essential talent has begun, as Hong Kong's middle class seeks refuge elsewhere. If, say, 100,000 key people break their ties to Hong Kong before 1997 , the territorys future will be bleak, whatever the Communists do. 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