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You might have notice that biz in Hong Kong is silent about China's encroaching grip. That's because they are being forced to take a side. MNCs that don't toe the line are bullied. Workers who don't show loyalty face job loss. Some examples... 1/7https://nyti.ms/3gGTf2z
Employees of at least two Chinese banks in Hong Kong were told to sign an online petition this week supporting Beijing's controversial security law for HK. They were told to screenshot proof for senior management. Some did so under pressure even though they didn't support it 2/7
A border and customs worker at a state-backed company was told by his boss to vote for a pro-Beijing candidate in last November's district council elections. He didn't. 3/7
After one biz prof was photographed at a protest w/ prominent pro-dem figures including Martin Lee and @JimmyLaiApple his mainland students asked the university to delete online details about his classes. They threatened to boycott events. He stopped teaching on the mainland 4/7
Foreign companies increasingly feel wrath from Beijing. Now, former & current Hong Kong leaders are part of the campaign. CY Leung called for a boycott of HSBC bc it had not publicly endorsed Beijing's security law. "Neither China nor Hong Kong owes HSBC anything," he wrote. 5/7
“We’ve seen a rapid deterioration in free expression in Hong Kong since the anti-government protests began,” says @jasonyng, who experienced the fury of China’s state media and internet after complaining online abt pro-China demonstrators. It cost him his job at a French bank 6/7
Read more from lawyers, bankers, professors and others who describe a growing culture of fear in offices here. Reporting it took months handholding and many passes from interviewees too scared to talk on the record. It is a warning of what is to come 7/7https://nyti.ms/3gGTf2z
Some pro democracy shops are not allowed to rent malls under HKGov, obviously political suppressionpic.twitter.com/VV4TGhJP3b
Will be very interesting if NYT has the resources to do a mirrored piece on Macau’s self-censorship, half-baked patriotism and faked loyalty to the Mainland, which’ve almost permeated through every corner of society and predated HK.
This is all true. It happens everyday in the Mainland. Now it is happening increasingly in HK. Further iron-clad evidence that HK is now just another city in Chinese Mainland.
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