Billionaire from Montreal becomes Beijing booster
The National Post has a piece about a billionaire from Montreal who’s been doing business in Hong Kong for ages and is a booster for the Beijing government’s crackdown on the zone. It’s clear that this can be summed up as “rich guy wants order imposed so he can make more money.”
DeWolf 10:52 on 2021-10-21 Permalink
Oh. Allan Zeman. Fun fact: back in the 1980s, he bought up a bunch of properties in Lan Kwai Fong, a back alley near Hong Kong’s main financial district, with the intention of creating something similar to Crescent Street in Montreal.
His opinions reflect those of the Hong Kong establishment, whose fortunes are so tied up in mainland China that they couldn’t possibly say anything critical of the CCP. Incidentally, Zeman renounced his Canadian citizenship and became a Chinese citizen in the hopes of earning a spot on the HK government’s Executive Council, but his nomination was quashed by Beijing because a foreigner will always be a foreigner and can never really be trusted, no matter how much toadying he does.
JaneyB 08:06 on 2021-10-22 Permalink
That’s quite a story. There’s a tragic movie waiting to be made about him someday.