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City Beat | If China-US relations sour even further, don’t expect lobbying to help Hong Kong despite goodwill from some Americans towards city
- Hong Kong has played a specific role in China-US relations since 1997, but with the two powers stuck in a trade war, reflecting on city’s status can be telling
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There was an interesting aside when the South China Morning Post received a media leadership award in Washington last week from the US-China Policy Foundation, a non-partisan organisation dedicated to promoting understanding between policymakers from the two countries for more than two decades.
At the gala dinner hosted by the foundation, many American guests, knowing that I was from Hong Kong, talked about their fond memories of our city. It made me proud.
“I love Hong Kong,” former US ambassador to China Gary Locke said at the event.
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Small or big, positive or negative, Hong Kong has always played a specific role in China-US relations since its handover of sovereignty from Britain in 1997. And now, with the world’s two major powers caught up in an unprecedented trade war, reflecting on the city’s status can be quite telling.
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Most Americans have never been to Hong Kong, and many who are familiar with this city generally tend to be from elite groups such as diplomats, businesspeople and professionals.
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