Since the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in Hong Kong, the city’s Beijing-backed leadership has weathered a battery of sanctions. That leadership is now working to rehabilitate its international reputation.
Hong Kong officials have had some early successes, recently enticing a group of U.S. financial-industry executives to attend a conference in Hong Kong, thus shifting the conversation away from the Party’s draconian enforcement of Beijing’s line. And in Bangkok this week, Hong Kong chief executive John Lee made the rounds at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, an international trade forum, to drum up trade activity for his city.
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