Dubai has pushed Hong Kong’s port out of the number 10 place. The shuffle reflects the rapidly declining fortunes of the port, once the world’s busiest.
‘We just got kicked out of our own university,’ said a student activist who protested Chinese ambassador Xie Feng’s speech in Harvard University on April 20.
On April 10, the private office website of Mr. Maktoum, a ‘Dubai prince’ who promised to invest in HK was inaccessible. His personal LinkedIn account also disap
‘If you join this industry, your freedom will be even smaller,’ said Mr. Chan, a former civil servant in Hong Kong who has resigned and moved to the UK.
‘The most important thing to become an international financial center is trust from the United States,’ Takafumi Maki, a Japanese financial professional, wrote.
Stephen Roach, former Morgan Stanley Asia chair, said he was prohibited from expressing differing opinions on Hong Kong at the recent China Development Forum.
With the exodus of foreign capital and the contraction of the financial industry, Hong Kong may only serve as an emigration springboard for Chinese talents.
‘They asked me if was I willing to provide information of other overseas activists to them after arriving in Toronto,’ said Agnes Chow in a March 11 interview.
“The legislation of Article 23 will not change the confidentiality of penance practiced by the Church,” Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong responded on March 15.
‘If Article 23 legislation is to pass, which we expect it will, a Level 2 travel advisory for Hong Kong may no longer be defensible,’ reads a CECC letter.
“This marks the complete withdrawal of the Jiang faction’s power, and Xi Jinping has begun to fully control Hong Kong,” said veteran media figure Cheng Xiang.