HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's international business community is warning that authorities' recent moves to crack down on free speech could hamper the city's competitiveness. But many executives acknowledge they will not decamp while Hong Kong remains Asia's most important financial hub.
The Hong Kong government's recent decisions to reject the visa renewal of a foreign journalist and to ban a pro-independence party "raises real concerns for the international business community as to whether this will become the thin end of the wedge," said George Cautherley, managing director of health care products company, HCD Holdings.
