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  • I'm currently at Hong Kong airport where we're witnessing

  • unprecedented scenes with all flights on Monday cancelled

  • for the rest of the day because of protests unfolding behind

  • me.

  • Thousands of people from Hong Kong have come to the airport

  • to voice their discontent at the government and police, who they

  • say took extraordinarily violent measures last night

  • against protesters in the city.

  • Earlier today there was absolute pandemonium

  • at the airport with thousands of people filling the arrival

  • halls, the airport's express, and buses to the airport.

  • And we even saw people walking from Hong Kong

  • out to the airport because there was no other form

  • of transportation.

  • And yet they still wanted to join the crowds.

  • Last week Hong Kong had its first general strike in more

  • than half a century where hundreds of flights in and out

  • of Hong Kong were delayed or cancelled.

  • Economists I spoke to said that if it

  • were just a one-off, and that was the first and only time

  • that Hong Kong's airport was disrupted due to the protests,

  • that would be one thing.

  • But it would be another thing if we

  • saw the airport shut down again because of the protest

  • movement.

  • And that's exactly what we've seen today

  • with Hong Kong airport shut down for the second time in one

  • week.

  • So over the past few weeks we've seen China ratcheting up

  • its signals and indicating its extreme discontent

  • with what is currently going on in Hong Kong right now.

  • Beijing currently faces a dilemma

  • Because on the one hand, it is outraged and horrified

  • at the growing violence and discontent in Hong Kong.

  • But on the other hand, it is hesitant to intervene

  • because of what it would mean for the international hub.

  • Hong Kong is considered a gateway into China

  • and is seen by international businesses

  • as having a relatively stable economy and robust rule of law.

  • And anything that Beijing were to do

  • to undermine that and the perception of that,

  • could really hit Hong Kong's economy.

I'm currently at Hong Kong airport where we're witnessing

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香港の空港閉鎖は抗議者にとって大胆な一歩となる理由|FT (Why closing Hong Kong’s airport is a bold step for protesters | FT)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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