FILE PHOTO: A firefighter prepares to get into a sewage tunnel inside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus, in Hong Kong, November 19, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
TOKYO: Global shares slid on Thursday as a fresh row between Washington and Beijing over US bills on Hong Kong could complicate their trade negotiation and delay a "phase one" deal that investors had initially hoped to be inked by now.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.2%, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng shedding 2% while Japan's Nikkei dropped 1.6%. Chinese mainland shares dropped 0.6%.
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