Is Singapore benefitting from Hong Kong's duress? Not entirely.
Illustration by Tim Marrs
During the 2017 Chinese New Year, late at night, a well-connected Chinese-born businessman named Xiao Jianhua was abducted from his apartment in the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, apparently in coordination with Chinese law enforcement. The bewildered billionaire was placed in a wheelchair, covered in a blanket and rolled away. Later, he reappeared in Shanghai, where last year he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on corruption charges.
But Xiao’s plainclothes captors had been breakin
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