Extra security: a police patrol at MTR station on the lookout for protesters
A finance conference was canned in Hong Kong last week. It will be pushed back three months, and held in Macau instead. It wasn’t that anyone feared for their safety. It was a knock-on effect of the one true impact of civil unrest on Hong Kong business and finance so far: inconvenience.
You don’t get caught up in petrol bombs and iron bars in Hong Kong unless you’re either very unlucky or decide to take too close a look at the action.
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