https://www.scmp.com/rss/506652/feed Stuart Harbinson served as a senior Hong Kong government trade policy official and negotiator in the 1980s and 1990s. He was Hong Kong's representative to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from 1994 to 2002, after which he became chief of staff to WTO director general Supachai Panitchpakdi and then special adviser to his successor, Pascal Lamy. He is a fellow of the Asia Global Institute and the European Centre for International Economic Policy, and a senior consultant on international trade... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last week, US President Donald Trump determined – in an executive order on so-called Hong Kong Normalisation – that the Special Administrative Region (SAR) is no longer sufficiently autonomous to justify differential treatment in relation to the People’s Republic of China under various American laws. Lurking at the bottom of a list of laws is the innocuous sounding “section 1304 of title 19, United States Code”. No details are provided. This seemingly obscure provision in fact ends Hong Kong’s... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3094058/us-perverse-bullying-hong-kong-trade-will-prove?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3094058/us-perverse-bullying-hong-kong-trade-will-prove?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:15:16 +0000