HONG KONG/TAIPEI—Hong Kong government suspended on Tuesday operations at its representative office in Taiwan in a sign of escalating diplomatic tension between the mainland-ruled financial hub and the democratically-ruled island of Taiwan.
Tensions between Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing government and Taiwan have risen since Hong Kong saw Beijing push through a national security law which has suffocated pro-democracy protests that erupted in the former British colony in 2019. The imposition of the sweeping national security law prompted many of Hong Kong’s new dissidents to leave, some for Taiwan.
