Why Hong Kong after the takeover by the Communist Party of China is still ranked no. 3 is dubious at best! However, the article acknowledges: "... that the territory has been losing freedom during the past 10 years and we expect future editions of the index to show notable declines in Hong Kong’s ratings and rankings, especially given Beijing’s aggressive interventions there in 2019 and 2020. ..."
The Cato Institute is a unabashedly Never Trump organisation. Cato Institute even goes so far to suggest that freedom was gaining under the Obama Administration, which is preposterous: "... The United States ranks 17th and has begun a decline in its level of freedom in 2018 after years during which it had been regaining lost ground from a previous decline. Its drop in economic freedom in 2018 exceeds its decline in personal freedom. ..."
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