always supported the one country 2 system approaches as well as hong kong's constitution says we are against any type of illegal action as well as any form of violence from the demonstrators are now also demanding an independent investigation of police deployments in earlier protests. earlier today i caught up with max sang line he's head of program economic research at the merrick's nakata institute for china studies here in berlin and he's just returned from hong kong to brief german media about the economic fallout from the unrest there i asked him if hong kong is running the risk of losing its appeal to international investors. hong kong as a global financial center has already taken damage and this in particular is not so much from the protests itself but from china's reaction to the protests the political pressure that was put on companies such as cathay pacific are part of the