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Hong Kong national security law : "banks were pressurised to support it"

FRANCE24, 08 Jul 2020
« What side will you take in #HongKong? Will you take the side of the corporate or will you take the side of #democracy? As far as #HSBC and other big banks, Paribas having a gun point to their head, i’d say no its the opposite. Not only to they want the gun there, they are providing the ammunition for those weapons. HSBC for example publicly declared its support for the new legislation in June before the details were even released.
(…) There will be near term disruption but long term success. Democracy backers have been defenestrated by the Chinese communist party. »
Craig Copetas, correspondent-at-Large, Quartz

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