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Ben Kwok July 14, 2021 11:20
Someone should send Chief Executive Carrie Lam some flowers.
Well, her popularity has bounced back to reach a two-year high. The Hong Kong Public Opinion Program concluded in its latest survey that her popularity rating registered a significant increase of 4.2 marks to 34, the highest score since June 2019 when the anti-fugitive law drew two million people to the street.
So no more sleepless night at the Government House? Unfortunately, that is only part of the story. Still some thirty-seven per cent of respondents gave her zero mark.
As such, Lam had a net approval rate of negative 47 percentage points, having subtracted a disapproval rate of 67 per cent from a 20 per cent approval rate.
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China is taking another step to loosen its capital controls and in the process is giving onshore investors greater access to a previously hard-to-reach bond market. The so-called southbound link of the Bond Connect program will help draw capital from the mainland to bonds available in Hong Kong, which are currently a challenge to buy due to regulatory restrictions. The new channel could serve to check excess strength in China’s currency by balancing money flowing from overseas funds into Chinese