Hong Kong and private property?

[RadioRaheem84]

Isn't Hong Kong touted as the great free market paradise the Libertarians salivate over? Yet, I recently read that all of the land in under government control and leased to private users? Is this true? Hong Kong then is able to support public spending at a low tax rate.

I was under the impression that Hong Kong supported private property rights but it seems like all the land is in the hands of the state? What gives?

[Muzk]

It depends on whose hands the state is in. Puppets!
Small government, only there to suppress the revolution... a fasc - I mean liberals wet dream

[RadioRaheem84]

Well of course I am not touting this a grand effort to eliminate private property, as the Hong Kong authorities dubbed it "positive non-interventionism". But even with many figures involved in the Hong Kong government saying that HK is not lassiez-faire, Libertarians like the former Mr. Milton Friedman insisted HK as a perfect example of free markets.