Hong Kong’s new task: go big on international ties, but can it pull it off?


When law professor and veteran lawmaker Priscilla Leung Mei-fun spearheaded a two-day international summit in Hong Kong for top academics in December, she left out one item on the agenda: politics.

She “explicitly” told the participants that they were not there to talk politics and that it was a non-government event.

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