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Many in Hong Kong worry these days about China's growing influence, suspecting the local elite of conspiring with it to cover up unwelcome truths.
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Once they were the stomping grounds of China's foreign and local capitalist elite -- grown rich on new industries such as textiles, trade and finance.
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In Afghanistan, the other country where an American-led coalition has been waging war in democracy's name, the corruption and deviousness of the local political elite, and the flaws of last year's election, have been an embarrassment.
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In Freetown, the smashed-up capital of Sierra Leone, where hotels charge New York prices for rooms and meals, another moneyed elite (both local and foreign) inflates the price of everything from toothpaste to bananas.
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But suspicion also arises: schism between local and national, between ordinary and elite.
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The success of the 2010 garden marked the first time in the history of the Chelsea show that a local authority had won gold in the elite large outdoor show garden category.
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The third consequence of increased competition for places in elite schools has been the displacement of local pupils by foreign ones.
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Thatcher attended local state schools at a time when Conservative politicians were still mainly drafted from Britain's elite private schools.
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It is very clearly a demand for local reform, nothing grander, but it is nonetheless a rallying cry with troubling connotations for the party elite now meeting in Beijing.
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