The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong.
Photographer: Paul Yeung/BloombergThe Publishing Empire Helping China Silence Dissent in Hong Kong
- China’s Liaison Office controls newspapers, book publishers
- Hong Kong's security law has put a spotlight on free speech
When Hong Kong’s richest tycoons declared their support for the city’s national security law in June, it wasn’t what they said that stood out as much as how they said it.
One by one, the financial hub’s most prominent capitalists — from Li Ka-shing to Raymond Kwok — delivered their endorsements in a strikingly similar way: by giving interviews or statements to Hong Kong newspapers controlled by China’s Communist Party.