Last month a worldwide reunion attracted 1, 300 members of the Macanese diaspora, many wanting to have one last look at the city before Beijing assumes control.
The problem is that Beijing, to control inflation, is in fact putting the brakes on the money supply.
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As Beijing seeks to control its territorial waters and the waters of others we can expect to see other clashes involving Chinese civilian vessels.
Moreover, it is no accident that those bits of the Chinese world that have done best of all Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong itself are those that have been free from Beijing's control.
The money comes partly through formal credit from state banks that gets washed through other state-owned enterprises but also from informal channels that seem to be out of Beijing's control.
At some point, as China's dollar hoard piles up, its middle class is going to itch to get a return on its savings and Beijing's financial control mechanisms may start to slip.
The former vice chairman of the China Nonferrous Metals Engineering and Design Institute has clearly suggested that Beijing is using its control over rare earths to force companies to move their manufacturing to China.
At the mission control center in Beijing, China's leaders watched the craft jettison its rockets and enter its planned orbit.
Rather than depend on market mechanisms to secure its ballooning need for fossil fuel, Beijing prefers to take physical control of the oil fields.
With Beijing traditionally having kept tight control over foreign exchange, CDB and to a lesser extent the Export-Import Bank of China, a fellow policy bank have dominated the funding of overseas projects and investments of Chinese firms.
"This is the only conglomerate under the control of the Beijing municipal government so that justifies a premium, but at the current level it's a bit expensive, " says Wilson Yung of Nikko Research Center in Hong Kong.
The Beijing News backs a proposal by the capital's mayor to follow the example of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions and set up a joint air pollution control system between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
This is in contrast with Chinese equities, where the rally that started late last year has lost some of its earlier drive especially this week, which started with heavy selling on Monday after Beijing announced new measures to control the property market.
Sadly, as Beijing's heavy-handed control of the Olympics suggests, there is scant hope of that.
The property market's strength, though, has renewed concern that Beijing could further tighten policy to control prices.
In China, stocks continued to recover from Monday's sharp drop - a fall brought about by Beijing's new measures to control the property market.
The Shanghai Composite ended up 0.3% at 2270.28, snapping a five-day losing streak brought about by worries about China's economic recovery and Beijing's renewed efforts to control the property market.
Beijing has shown it will use its control over natural resources to injure others.
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"It is necessary to introduce a 'Clean Air Act' on a national level to clarify the responsibilities of the national government at all levels, companies and the individual in air pollution control, " urges The Beijing News.
Chinese stocks will probably not be so fortunate, with markets in both Hong Kong and Shanghai set to finish the week lower amid fears that Beijing will implement further tightening measures to control prices in the residential property market.
Beijing is also obtaining colonial-style control of energy and other natural resources (including, notably some 98% of the world's exports of rare earth minerals that are indispensable for state-of-the-art manufacturing for a host of commercial and military purposes).
Google did not accuse China of being behind the hacking, but the company has been at odds with Beijing in the past over Chinese attempts to control Internet use.
Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said China must do more to address its undervalued currency and dependence on exports, adding that such a move is in Beijing's best interest because it will control inflation.
On Jan. 17, in a move that reaffirmed China's aim to control Tibet through local people, Beijing approved a two-year-old Tibetan boy, Soinam Puncog, as the seventh reincarnation of the Reting Rinpoche, an important and controversial lama.
The Beijing government will no doubt find ways to control Hong Kong's shortlist of candidates but, unlike the recent selection of Mr Leung, who was returned by an electoral college consisting mainly of party sympathisers, the public is supposed to have the final say.
Beijing officials, who are used to being in control, are freaking out as they watch a drama without a script.
If Beijing is able to do this, it would control the next generation of energy products used by the world for the next century.
It is because Beijing technocrats, by making this change, would lose control of their economy, starting with the banking system.
Beijing worries it cannot hold the country together without sufficient control.
In the latest effort to curb property prices, Beijing required municipal and state governments to establish new home price control targets based on economic growth and increases in disposable income.
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