[My respond to HSBC’s top Asia exec has come out in support of the national security law]
1/ HSBC provides a vivid example demonstrating how China will use the national security law as new leverage for more political influence over foreign business community in this global city.
1/ HSBC provides a vivid example demonstrating how China will use the national security law as new leverage for more political influence over foreign business community in this global city.
2/ Business circles, banks, lawyers and scholars fear that the law will introduce Chinese styled snitching culture and censorship to HK. It's foreseeable that more companies are forced to kowtow to Beijing once the law is implemented in HK.
3/ Under Beijing’s tightening grip, HK is no longer an autonomous city for investors and ex-pats. In fact, foreign capitals like traders and funds companies have long been regarded as a threat to national security by Beijing, especially during China’s financial crisis in 2015.
4/ Under its wolf warrior diplomacy, ex-pats & foreign companies can easily become the targets of new law due to its ambiguously defined “foreign forces”. I call on UK Gov to take vigorous actions & impose necessary sanctions if China insists on scraping Joint Declaration.
5/ Since the law introduces legal and political uncertainties to the city, the world should also reconsider Hong Kong’s special status in order to protect foreign interests and as a way to push for the withdrawal of this evil law.
