A somewhat delicate topic for discussion today...
...but Urban Dirt can exclusively reveal that the world's oldest profession has taken a giant and eye-catching leap into the 21st Century digital economy. The Apple machine has suddenly become the toast of Hong Kong's harlotry. And though I'm not a betting man, I'd be prepared to wager that Stev
e Jobs will not be basing a major marketing push on the very particular commercial use to which his precious iPhones are being put in the Far East.
To put this in some context, Urban Dirt is currently in sunny Hong Kong, admiring the vast container ships slipping out to sea and trying to make head or tail of the wildly divergent views I've garnered on the future of the Chinese economy. I've heard "apocalypse", I've heard "decoupling" and I've heard "steady as she goes": all with compelling arguments, but none quite compelling enough to be sure that anyone is right.
But if there were ever any doubt about the sheer ingenuity and opportunism at the street-level of the greater Chinese economy, then it has been convincingly and spectacularly dispelled today. Well, late last night...
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