https://www.scmp.com/rss/506876/feed James Stent has pursued a career in financial services in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, mainland China, and Mongolia. He received a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University. He authored China’s Banking Transformation, and presently works on cultural heritage preservation issues in Thailand, where he resides. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Beijing’s imposition of the national security law for Hong Kong has elicited a torrent of impassioned Western condemnation. Pundits decry the supposed end of Hong Kong’s unique “two systems” and predict the decline of Hong Kong as an international centre of finance and commerce. It appears to me – a sometime resident and long-time observer of both Hong Kong and mainland China – that the present near-hysteria over Hong Kong’s future may be as far off the mark as most dire forecasts by China bear... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096904/truth-national-security-law-wont-hurt-hong-kongs-viability-global?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096904/truth-national-security-law-wont-hurt-hong-kongs-viability-global?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:15:15 +0000