From the article:
"Hong Kong is roughly the same size as Chicago reporting 7.3 million inhabitants with Chicago reporting 9.8 million. However, one of these cities is rampaged with crime, insolvency and terrible management. It doesn’t take long for the casual observer to see that Hong Kong is thriving while Chicago is in despair. The sad fact is that many US cities are similar to Chicago in that they are in sorry financial shape and they incur significantly high crime rates."
What is the ethnic demographic makeup of Hong Kong?
What is the ethnic demographic makeup of Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc.?
It's not as much a problem of economics, as it is one of… race.