Western financiers are willing to chase short-term profits even if it means funding a repressive regime that has made no secret of its animosity toward the West.
Protesters in Hong Kong march to the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, May 26, 2019, to demand justice for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Credit: Etan Liam via Flickr
In early November, Wall Street’s big guns will head to Hong Kong for a global financial summit, dining at the Palace Museum (featuring Chinese imperial works on loan from Beijing) before meeting at the nearby Rosewood Hotel — one of the city’s swankiest. There, the top brass from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and another 100 financial firms will enjoy delicious food and breathtaking views as Hong Kong’s leaders pitch them on the profits to be made in the former Br
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Agriculture has traditionally been a fruitful area for China-U.S. cooperation, dating back to the two countries’ resumption of diplomatic relations in the 1970s. Now it is just another area marked by Sino-American distrust, as Washington hunts Chinese agriscience “spies” and Beijing races to reduce reliance on U.S. farm exports.
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