Commentary Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve been a long-time fan of Hong Kong. From my first visit to this amazing used-to-be entrepreneurial city in 1971, when it was a jewel as the British Crown colony providing a window and a door to mysterious mainland communist China, Hong Kong has been a center of freedom, free enterprise, free trade, free speech, and the rule of law. Over the decades I’ve visited it more than 130 times. I’ve become good friends with its business, governmental, academic, and media leaders. My wife and I visited our adopted Vietnamese family in their temporary refugee camp in the New Territories before they moved permanently to Virginia. Our son learned to water-ski in Repulse Bay. Our family explored the nooks and crannies of Kowloon, Victoria Island, and the New Territories. And I’ve ridden with Hong Kong through ups and downs. Ups like the peaceful handover to …