Apparently, not all those in finance in Hong Kong are shit-scared of rocking the boat with China.
Today a group of pro-democracy financiers (we mean people who work in investments and such, not the delicious French cakes of the same name) took out an advert in the Asia edition of the Wall Street Journal listing “10 requests” for Beijing’s Communist Party.
Among the far-fetched asks are for the party to “establish a system of genuine universal suffrage” (snort), and to “refrain from interfering in the administrative affairs of Hong Kong” (cripplingly embarrassing double-snort).
It just goes to show that this group of banker types – who go by the name “HK Finance Monitor 2047” in reference to the year the Sino-British declaration ends – really do have money to burn.
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