The West Kowloon terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link. Photo: David Wong The West Kowloon terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link. Photo: David Wong
The West Kowloon terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link. Photo: David Wong
Jake Van Der Kamp
Opinion

Opinion

Jake's View by Jake Van Der Kamp

Hong Kong’s joint rail checkpoint shows the emperor is not always far away, and never out of mind

There will be no clear explanation from Beijing as to why co-location is lawful. This is a demonstration to Hong Kong of how the emperor is not always far away

Jake Van Der Kamp
Jake Van Der Kamp

Updated: 11:16pm, 3 Jan, 2018

Why you can trust SCMP
The West Kowloon terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link. Photo: David Wong The West Kowloon terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link. Photo: David Wong
The West Kowloon terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link. Photo: David Wong
READ FULL ARTICLE
Jake Van Der Kamp

Jake Van Der Kamp

Jake van der Kamp is a native of the Netherlands, a Canadian citizen, and a longtime Hong Kong resident. He started as a South China Morning Post business reporter in 1978, soon made a career change to investment analyst and returned to the newspaper in 1998 as a financial columnist.