Vulture Fund May Cause ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in Hong Kong
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China must approve a U.S. investment fund’s lawsuit in Hong Kong against the Democratic Republic of the Congo before it can proceed, the central African country’s lawyers said in a challenge to the Chinese region’s independent judiciary.
“This is a matter that self-evidently affects the position of the central people’s government,” Barrie Barlow, a lawyer representing Congo, told Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal today.