2022年4月14日
Neville Lai, Brian YS Wong
EJ Insight
Reforming Hong Kong for the better: Economics and finance
The past few years have been extraordinarily treacherous for Hong Kong. The 2019 anti-extradition bill protests exacerbated long-standing grievances and divergences between the mainland and Hong Kong, and culminated at seismic transformations to the political order in the city. With the introduction of legislation designed to 'restore order and balance' to the city, some suggest that the city's financial and economic infrastructure is no longer intact, and that we fundamentally are living in a city that is creeping into its dying days. The party, and the Halcyon Days it stands for, is over for Hong Kong – or so they claim.
With Beijing's concerns over Hong Kong's security taking the foreground, and continuous retaliative economic sanctions implemented by the West against China (including Hong Kong), a spectre haunts Hong Kong's prospects as an international nexus – especially in the financial and economic spheres. ...
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