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lord dominicjohnson is the first british minister to visit hong kong for five years, before mass pro democracy protests swept the city and resulted in a crackdown by beijing. our asia business correspondent nick marsh with more. johnson s in hong kong to do business. he s there to attract investments in the uk. there s a focus primarily on financial services and financial technologies. now, the economic links between the home of europe s financial capital and asia s financial capital will, of course, they run deep. but there are some parallels more recently as well. both places, frankly speaking, have had a bit of a wobble recently. london, because of brexit and the uncertainty there, hong kong because of the political turmoil, the protests, and then more recently, the covid i9 restrictions. so from an economic standpoint, this visit makes sense. hong kong finance officials were in london last month, doing
to call china out and be robust when it came to violations of freedoms in the city. but ultimately that is not why he is there. he is there to do business. he wants to attract investment in the uk, particularly in the areas of financial services, financial technologies, and the same goes for vice versa, by the way. hong kong finance officials were in london last month trying to do the same thing. but really itjust shows how much i ve changed in the past three orfour years. during the 2019 protests in hong kong, britain was very vocal in its support of the demonstrators. it was critical of the crackdown, of the national security law. there was even talk of sanctions being put in place. but in the end it really was just talk, and since then that tension has kind of fizzled out. the uk government position has softened considerably.
but ultimately that is not why he is there. he is there to do business. he wants to attract investment in the uk, particularly in the areas of financial services, financial technologies, and the same goes for vice versa, by the way. hong kong finance officials were in london last month trying to do the same thing. but really, itjust shows how much has changed in the past three orfour years. during the 2019 protests in hong kong, britain was very vocal in its support of the demonstrators. it was critical of the crackdown, of the national security law. there was even talk of sanctions being put in place. but in the end, it really was just talk, and since then that tension has kind of fizzled out. the uk government position has softened considerably. it was only a couple of weeks ago that the foreign secretary james cleverly was talking about the need to engage with china rather than isolate it. and you just have to look
hong kong finance officials were in london last month trying to do the same thing. but really itjust shows how much has changed in the past three orfour years. during the 2019 protests in hong kong, britain was very vocal in its support of the demonstrators. it was critical of the crackdown, of the national security law. there was even talk of sanctions being put in place. but in the end it really was just talk, and since then that tension has kind of fizzled out. the uk government position has softened considerably. it was only a couple of weeks ago that the foreign secretary james cleverly was talking about the need to engage with china rather than isolate it. and you just have to look at the case in point on the weekend, the king s coronation. china s representative was the vice president, and he was a man who led the crackdown and helped force through the national security law in hong kong in 2019 and 2020.