Hong Kong's gradual slide from small business haven to the smothering embrace of a bureaucrat-tycoon alliance continues. It is evident in small things as well as large ones. First, a small but all too representative one. The new Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is to be the current head of a government-linked so-called think-tank, the Bauhinia Foundation and an appointed member of various government boards and authorities.
Hong Kong's Chamber of Horrors
Hong Kong's Chamber of Horrors
Hong Kong's Chamber of Horrors
Hong Kong's gradual slide from small business haven to the smothering embrace of a bureaucrat-tycoon alliance continues. It is evident in small things as well as large ones. First, a small but all too representative one. The new Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is to be the current head of a government-linked so-called think-tank, the Bauhinia Foundation and an appointed member of various government boards and authorities.
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