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Hong Kong legislator + CCP stooge Regina Ip wrote a rebuttal letter to FT in response to Stephen Roach’s article last week… Ip took a page out of the CCP playbook and blamed everything on foreigners… 🤦🏻
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) February 19, 2024
No, the US didn’t curb capital flows into Hong Kong. That’s not why stocks… https://t.co/cU2Z4C2XtT pic.twitter.com/jHZyIpbKKQ
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Hong Kong property prices have fallen more than they did during the Global Financial Crisis, now down 24% from the peak vs 23% in 2008 pic.twitter.com/Om9H6HHsYi
— Matthew Brooker (@mbrookerhk) February 19, 2024
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Stephen Roach: “Hong Kong was perfectly positioned as the major beneficiary of what turned into the world’s greatest development miracle. It all worked out brilliantly, for longer than anyone expected. And now it’s over.”https://t.co/6ojB1KRmKL via @ft
— Matthew Brooker (@mbrookerhk) February 12, 2024
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To outsiders, @SRoach_econ’s heavy reliance on #HongKong’s stock market as the basis for saying that the city is finished might seem strange. After all, stock markets generally epitomise wider society. But in HK’s case, it is right to look to the stock market. Here’s why. (1/7) https://t.co/e06lHGL0rs
— Kevin Yam 任建峰 (@kevinkfyam) February 12, 2024
… investors” just so that they can get access to complex stock-based investments which in most places would be restricted to hedge funds and the like.
— Kevin Yam 任建峰 (@kevinkfyam) February 12, 2024
C. Stock analysts in #HongKong are CELEBRITIES in their own rights.
D. Stock trades are used not just as investments, … (3/7)
… be shut down, rendering the shares they bought valueless.
— Kevin Yam 任建峰 (@kevinkfyam) February 12, 2024
E. The #HongKong stock market is so ubiquitous in town that all forms of popular culture are tied to it, ranging from the idea of rinsing one’s mouth with shark fin soup (in the days before shark fin became … (5/7)
And what I’ve just mentioned above are just for starters. So yes, the #HongKong stock market is a better indicator of where HK society is at than stock markets in other places might be for their societies. (7/7)
— Kevin Yam 任建峰 (@kevinkfyam) February 12, 2024
Correction to tweet 1 of 7: “generally DON’T epitomise”
— Kevin Yam 任建峰 (@kevinkfyam) February 12, 2024
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The “patriots” overseeing Hong Kong’s long slide into darkness:
— Matthew Brooker (@mbrookerhk) February 10, 2024
“The city’s new lawmakers include a crop of young hyper-nationalists who … are fond of obnoxious online banter—cheering on Russia, berating Taiwan—and performative displays of patriotism” https://t.co/7Uey6Z7rhy
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“The biggest obstacle to Hong Kong’s future development is its current political elite.”
— Timothy McLaughlin (@TMclaughlin3) February 9, 2024
A bit about Article 23 and the direction of the city under the rule of an admin and lawmakers who care far more about guessing what Beijing wants than running HK.https://t.co/vd45Vpuip0
Jasper Tsang in Ming Pao a few weeks back, which got snipped from the piece: "Being patriotic alone is not enough to be a competent legislator." (The obsession with KPIs is funny, but when you no longer need to campaign you have to do something, I guess)https://t.co/AfT7zn1oB9
— Timothy McLaughlin (@TMclaughlin3) February 10, 2024
Very kind of you to group Regina under ‘young’ 😂😂😂
— Matthieu (@matt_1221_hk) February 10, 2024
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— Aaron Busch (@tripperhead) February 10, 2024
Homg Kong International Airport has fallen to 33rd in the latest Skytrax airport ratings for 2023.
That's down 13 places over 2022, and down 29 places from 4th in 2018.
Shenzhen was named most improved airpprt. https://t.co/foIWfeXfnw
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