The mass protests in Hong Kong this week are likely to have limited short-term impact on the city’s economic outlook, and a potentially more serious one on its long-term prospects.
While the demonstrations over the proposed extradition law are still at an early stage compared with the Occupy movement that froze the Central district in 2014, the city’s external headwinds are higher and growth has already slowed to the weakest since the 2009 financial crisis.
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