HongKong researchers caught in between US and China
HONG KONG - The year the British handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, engineering researcher Wong Kam Fai was in an information retrieval competition held by the American National Institute of Standards and Technology when he noticed a shift.
In the years prior, he had exchanged data quite freely with his counterparts in the United States. But all that ground to a halt around the time of the handover.Enjoy unlimited access to ST's best work Subscribe Now
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