Hong Kong-listed shares of HSBC and Standard Chartered rose on Thursday after the banks backed China’s imposition of a national security law on the city, even as a pro-democracy and newly formed …
On Tiananmen Anniversary, Hong Kong Protesters Brace for Their Chinese Crackdown
China has gobbled up the territory’s freedom, undeterred by protests and international condemnation. Who’s next?
Hong Kong and the UK: What’s the history between the two?
There are a lot of reasons why the protests are going on – and it’s helpful to know about the history of Hong Kong to understand what’s happening. Britain has played a big role in the history Hong …
Hong Kong to light candles across the city to mark Tiananmen anniversary
The anniversary strikes an especially sensitive nerve in the semi-autonomous city this year after Beijing’s move last month to impose national security legislation in Hong Kong, which critics fear …
China Doesn’t Want a New World Order. It Wants This One.
China is in the midst of a fierce battle to salvage its reputation. Under fire for their part in the pandemic and reproached for their move to assert control over Hong Kong, the country’s officials …
U.K. PM tells China that Britain will admit 3 Million from Hong Kong
“Many people in Hong Kong fear that their way of life — which China pledged to uphold — is under threat,” Johnson said.
HSBC publicly supports China’s national security law for Hong Kong
We reiterate that we respect and support laws and regulations that will enable Hong Kong to recover and rebuild the economy and, at the same time, maintain the principle of ‘one country two systems’.” …
U.K. Banks Defy London to Back Beijing on Hong Kong Security Law
The two British institutions that dominate Hong Kong’s banking system waded into the political minefield over the former colony’s future for the first time since protests last year and backed Beijing …
Vigil banned, Hong Kong set to commemorate Tiananmen with ‘candles everywhere’
People in Hong Kong are set to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square by lighting candles across the city on Thursday, after police banned an annual …
For Hong Kong, Tiananmen Looms Over the Future
In early 1989, change seemed unstoppable in Beijing. That it wasn’t, that China would push back with fury, casts a large shadow over Hong Kong today.