The Telegraph: 'China will bully the West like Hong Kong if governments do not reduce ties, report warns'

On 3 March 2021, Hong Kong Watch’s Policy Director, Johnny Patterson, was quoted in the Telegraph on the massive influx of red capital into Hong Kong.

The article cited the example of Hong Kong in the Red Capital Report published by Hong Kong Watch is a warning for Westerner governments that they should reduce trade with China so they are not vulnerable to bullying from Beijing.

Johnny said: “It is time to wake up. We need to be looking at where Western institutional investment is going and where China is targeting its investments. Hong Kong is a canary in a coalmine.” 

“If we allow another ten years of Beijing’s strategic investment of red capital across Africa and Europe, Latin America and Asia to take place unchallenged, we should not be surprised if – when inevitably there are geopolitical flashpoints – we see a rerun of Beijing domination of Hong Kong in other strategic geo-political battlegrounds or indeed on our own doorstep.”

Full article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/02/china-will-bully-west-like-hong-kong-governments-do-not-reduce/?fbclid=IwAR3P51scbjijA75kRwEUxvYnnLFUEcNDS3hsmc_H8rdRcHdkbD_cv6j03RI

(Photo: Reuters via The Telegraph)