“It seems that the reason to end horse racing in Macau is not economical only but also ideological: putting together sport and betting is regarded as immoral by the Marxist ethic revamped by Xi Jinping.”
“Macau, often caricatured as Asia’s Las Vegas, has long been overshadowed by Hong Kong in global conversations about Chinese authoritarianism. Its booming casino industry and relatively small population—just under 700,000—have helped insulate it from the kind of mass protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2014 and 2019. But the absence of spectacle should not be mistaken for stability.”
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Macau: commune in Gironde, France · municipality of Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil · shedding-type card game from Hungary · microregion of Brazil
Macau o Macao es una región administrativa especial de China. Consiste en la Macau Peninsula, las islas de Taipa y Coloane, la Cotai reclamation zone entre Taipa y Coloane, y varios islotes más pequeños. Limita con Zhuhai al norte y al oeste, y se encuentra al oeste de Hong Kong, separada por el Pearl River estuary. Con una población de alrededor de 720,000 personas y una land area de 32.9 square kilometres (12.7 sq mi), es la región más densamente poblada del mundo.
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