Sandwiched between superpowers


THE United States and China are unlikely to undermine Hong Kong’s position as the world’s leading financial centre in their high-stakes jostling for power and influence in the region, according to leading academics from both countries.

Dr Richard Weixing Hu, the University of Macau’s Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, said that while the stakes are very high for both countries, it is of “vital national interest for China not to let the ‘One Country Two Systems’ arrangement fail”.

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