However, Johannes Chan, dean of the University of Hong Kong's law faculty, visiting for a far more austere purpose, found the self-governing Chinese enclave less than hospitable.
In a posh enclave, less than ten miles away, Brentwood School AP Calculus teacher Joan Wilkes crouched at the foot of a wheezing, fifteen-year-old Xerox photocopier, on loan from Crenshaw High School specifically for the occasion.
The Russians invaded Georgia in a fever of war enthusiasm; have refused to pull out and rejected attempts to internationalise the dispute; and have now recognised the enclaves' independence less than three weeks after the war began.In principle, sub-national states should sometimes be able to secede, but South Ossetia and Abkhazia clearly do not qualify.
The government says the Tamil Tigers, fighting from their last remaining enclave, now control less than about 33 square miles.
But a short drive away, in the intensely observant enclaves of Borough Park and Williamsburg, less than one percent of Jewish children receive no Jewish education, the study found.
Rebels had held eastern Aleppo since 2012, but a year of Russian bombing allowed pro-regime forces to gradually encircle their enclave before finally overrunning it in less than a month.
Lesotho, formerly Basutoland, is a tiny, mountainous, landlocked enclave of South Africa with an estimated population of less than two million people, half of them living below the poverty line.
In less than a year, this riverfront enclave of glass storefronts has become New Orleans' trendiest neighbourhood, packed with independently-owned restaurants, such as Satsuma Cafe and Pizza Delicious, and art galleries, such as Bon Castor and May Gallery.
In less than a year, this riverfront enclave of glass storefronts has become New Orleans' trendiest neighbourhood, packed with independently-owned restaurants, such as Satsuma Cafe and Pizza Delicious, and art galleries, such as Bon Castor and May Gallery.
This has raised an unprecedented alarm in Ankara, which wants nothing less than an emboldened and spreading Kurdish enclave just across its border, which could link up with the semi-autonomous Kurdish north of Iraq.
