Well, thank that Gods, my agents acted on my stop-loss orders and we got what's left in Hong Kong cashed out. I'm down a fair bit (ca. 30% over the last week, which hurts but isn't catastrophic, even though we were much further down at one point and that was scary in the extreme) but can at least recover some of the capital loss against repatriated foreign gains so all's well that keeps the boat floating.

And like you mentioned, altho' short term might have been bad, long term there is still good, and I'll be keeping on with my Mandarin lessons. Gonna need them one way or the other.

Also in the dei gratia department, we'd all been expecting this for a few years (but just didn't know when so we've had some practice at living with hatches battened. Not too worried about consequences now, really. That's not the same as being optimistic, though.