Overcome today with the excitement of the Global Financial Hub-Zone Leadership Summit plus a Number 8 Light Showers signal (disrupted workday apparently justified because of storm’s impact on south side of Hong Kong Island, like the rest of us care). So just the declaration of an early weekend and some reading…
From HKFP, the number of 18-39-year-olds in the workforce has mysteriously fallen 8.2% over the last two years. (No analysis of how or why, though perhaps none is necessary. Such a decline could in theory indicate an extreme aging society, a massive rise in further education, or the astounding allure of Greater Bay Area opportunities – but even the government now admits to a massive increase in emigration.)
More manufacturing than Leadership Summit-style finance – Harris Bricken blog on the dilemmas and challenges facing overseas businesses in China.
Interesting article on censorship of the system that supposedly enables Chinese officials to view uncensored information, with potentially disastrous implications for decision-making – as with Covid. Maybe they need an internal internal news channel.
China’s overseas ‘police stations’ do not have any police in them, says Global Times.
Some brighter news: Beijing bans celebrities from endorsing health, financial and some other products, while those with ‘loose morals’ are forbidden to advertise anything (does that include Jackie Chan?).
Interview with a worker who fled the locked-down Foxconn smart-phone factory in Zhengzhou. (Video of workers breaking through hazmat-suited cordon on freeway here.)
Canada’s CBC on itself, closing its Beijing bureau.
AP on USCG inspections of Chinese fishing vessels off the Pacific coast of South America.
The Council on Foreign Relations on Chinese attempts to influence US politics.
Does anyone have the full story from the FT ‘Hong Kong struggles to persuade CEOs it is open for business’ that they can share?
Anyone else notice that the Observatory and RTHK still refer to the local region as the “Pearl River Estuary”? Perhaps someone is going to get invited for a cup of tea by the NS po po to discuss this subversive behavior.
@Mjrelje
Here: https://archive.ph/GGlAl
You can also use archive.ph on any paywalled site. Just input the url info archive.ph and paywall is gone
Price’s Price still inexplicably absent from your shelves…
[I won’t mind if you don’t publish this one!]
But it’s ok for the ‘loose morals’ cadres with their mistresses and baijiu feasts to run the government – those are Core Values
I once bought a book by Ted Thomas: “Straight Out”. Was I the only sucker?
@Joe Blow
Ted really must have done a number on your head.
What does your therapist say?
is the Pan Pearl River Delta still a thing or has it been subsumed into the Greater Bay Area?
@natasha
Amazed that Ted has fans
Book fans will be glad . . .
Books I didn’t know I had,
Comic, tragic, happy, sad,
More books than I ever thought,
Books I never should have bought,
Out-dated guidebooks stuffed in sacks,
And all those tattered paperbacks.
Authors living, authors dead,
Classic books I’ve never read,
Books I’m never going to read,
Books I neither want nor need,
Ancient guidebooks stored in stacks,
And all those tattered paperbacks.
@Din Dan Che
To remonstrate against an attack on a flawed, ailing old man is not a question of fandom.
Some of us believe that forgiveness is a blessing and judgement belongs to God alone.
I understand why Natasha Fatale is needling Joe Blow for being a bit heartless.
Listening to R7 hype over the days and 26,000 tickets ‘sold’… when I asked my youngest he mentioned that the school was giving free tickets and he may go but not sure if they could be arsed. They then watched England v France online / TV. Such a great success.
@Mjrelje. GB (?!), not England, old chap!