An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing. Photo: AFP An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing. Photo: AFP
An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing. Photo: AFP
Tom Holland
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Abacus by Tom Holland

Hong Kong’s special status with the US is safe for now, but not for the reasons you think

  • With trade tensions rising again and concerns over the detention of foreign nationals on the mainland, some fear Washington may scrap a law treating the city separately from China. But these anxieties are overblown, for now

Tom Holland
Tom Holland

Updated: 10:00am, 13 May, 2019

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An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing. Photo: AFP An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing. Photo: AFP
An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing. Photo: AFP
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