Money flows to safe places, like Hong Kong today

In the latest Global Financial Centers Index, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ranked third again, making a U-turn compared with the past.

U-turn is also the best description of Hong Kong's economic influences in the past few years. The reason is crystal-clear to all: The anti-extradition riots that victimized Hong Kong and ruined its social order in the year 2019.

The riots were organized by some organizations that hate their home city and motherland; behind these home-hating organizations are certain Western politicians that hated to see a prospering China and a prospering Hong Kong as part of it. That's why they attacked enterprises and forced shops to shut down, attacked local residents, blocked streets and prevented them from going to the office, occupied buildings and frightened foreign venture capital to pull out.

That was how Hong Kong fell to the bottom of the U-turn. Like water flows to the ocean, money flows to where it is safe. By organizing riots, the home-hating organizations turned Hong Kong from a city attractive to the world to a place where everybody shunned.

It is the national security law that restored security and stability to Hong Kong, thus attracting the escaped investment back. It is the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area that helped Hong Kong better integrate with the Chinese mainland and prosper together. It is the efforts of the central leadership, the mainland people and the peace-loving Hong Kong people that dragged Hong Kong back to the upper side of the U-turn.

The U-turn has been finished, but there is more to come. Hong Kong will continue to prosper and its economy will go up further with support from the mainland. Thanks to the efforts of all, Hong Kong will have a brighter future.

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