The Big Picture
Vincent Boland: It is sad to say, but Hong Kong is so over it hurts – and it’s a loss to the world
From being the jewel of Asia, these days Hong Kong’s status as a world-leading financial centre is diminishing at an alarming rate
There are many ways to illustrate how things in Hong Kong have changed in the four years since China imposed a national security law that fundamentally altered the territory’s status, not just as part of the motherland but as a freewheeling, autonomous and wonderfully vibrant global city.
The imposition of the security measure effectively ended the “one country, two systems” model of co-existence that defined Hong Kong’s relationship with China since 1997, when Beijing reasserted ...
