Hong Kong protests threaten city’s status as glittering financial hub
On a humid August evening, Hong Kong’s expat bankers spill out of their air-conditioned offices in the central business district and into a trendy new bar.
There are the usual toasts of whisky-and-soda. But despite everyone’s best efforts to keep the mood light, talk soon turns to the protests that have plunged the former British colony into its worst political crisis since the handover to Chinese rule.
“A lot of Westerners try to stay away from it, because they just want to work, make money, go home,” says Daniel, 26, a consultant from Liverpool who has worked for two years in Hong Kong.
But as protests have spread across the city, they threaten Hong Kong’s status as a glittering financial hub….
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