The city should seize the opportunity offered by warming US-China ties and the coming Apec summit to burnish its global prominence
If one word could capture the essence of Hong Kong, it would be resilience.
Just two years ago, much of the international community had written off Hong Kong. A widely circulated newspaper commentary carried the headline: “It pains me to say Hong Kong is over”. Though the writer later changed his opinion, the piece captured the pessimism about the city’s future as a global hub.