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A whistleblower from one of China’s most powerful banks says its shady dealings highlight how Hong Kong’s financial system is increasingly at the mercy of Beijing.

HSBC Holdings Plc is shipping senior executives from its London headquarters to Hong Kong to seal a pivot by Europe’s largest lender to Asia. The moves are also stoking some discontent. Already smarting from a cut to the bonus pool after losses in Europe, some senior executives in Greater China worry their push into the world’s second-largest economy could be slowed by added bureaucracy and blurred reporting lines, according to people familiar with the discussions who asked to remain anonymous discussing a sensitive issue.

山雨欲來風滿樓。繼螞蟻集團世紀IPO臨時叫停，中國互聯網民企再遇「黑天鵝」！話說去年「雙十一」前夕，國家市場監管局發布《關於平台經濟領域的反壟斷指南（徵求意見稿）》，投資界憂慮新監管對相關企業的影響，兼且遇上新舊經濟股輪動，一眾平台經濟股立即插水。

Zhiwu Chen, director of the Asia Global Institute, shares his views on what the incoming Biden administration could mean for US-China relations and the trend of secondary listings of Chinese companies in Hong Kong at Bloomberg Markets: China Open Full Show.

“It is not new that the party regulates everything, including private businesses and especially private financial businesses, as this had been … explicitly stated in China’s constitution,” says Zhiwu Chen, a finance professor and director of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong. “But many private businessmen did not take this seriously. The recent Ant episode was a wake-up call.”

It has not taken long for the wheels to come off the Belt and Road Initiative. As recently as May 2017, China’s leader Xi Jinping stood in Beijing before a hall of nearly 30 heads of state and delegates from over 130 countries and proclaimed “a project of the century”.

12月5日—7日，凤凰网财经峰会在北京举行，据悉本次峰会以“破局与新生”为主题，梁振英、尚福林、殷勇、李扬、宋志平等多位政商学界嘉宾出席。 香港大学亚洲环球研究所所长陈志武在峰会上表示，在新冠病毒危机发生以后，富人的财富今年增长很多，而穷人今年财富没有任何增长。

最近幾年，香港的銀行黃金儲藏箱嚴重短缺。無論你跑到哪家銀行說想租保險箱保存金條，銀行都會告訴你保險箱早就被租完了。為什麼會這樣呢？大家知道，投資實物黃金，讓人頭痛的是要找個安全的地方把它藏起來，不能磨損，也不能被人偷。那要放在哪裡呢？如果量少，可以放在家裡鎖起來；如果量大，到銀行租保險箱是方法之一。但是，如果銀行保險箱也沒有了，那該怎麼辦呢？

美國這些年每年都有財政赤字，政府入不敷出，而且到2016年底，聯邦政府負債餘額為22.8兆美元，是美國GDP的一倍多。可是，從雷根、老布希、小布希到川普，只要是共和黨的人，從總統選舉期到實際成為總統後，都聲稱要減稅，而且他們當上總統後真的經常減稅，而不是增稅以減少政府負債。這到底是怎麼回事？政府已經很窮了，居然還要減稅，這到底是因為他們不負責任，還是背後有站得住腳的邏輯支撐？