Monday 23 May 2022

Hong Kong should resume quarantine-free travel with foreign countries first, chief of leading business chamber in city urges government

Hong Kong airport arrivals. How often I’ve stood in a crowd 
here awaiting family or friends. Deserted. Has been for two years
The new chairwoman of Hong Kong's General Chamber of Commerce, Betty Yuen, speaks sense.
The commenters make the obvious point that our officials are too pusillanimous, too much in hock to Beijing, to make such a brave move. To open up to the international community first, if opening the border with the mainland seems too difficult. Which, for now, it does.
Still, good on Betty!
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If forced to choose between first resumingquarantine-free travel with mainland China and the rest of the world, Hong Kong should pick the latter, the head of one of the city's most influential business chambers has said. [More…]

There are lost of comments I haven’t checked yet. My guess is most will be anti Yuen. That is, pro opening to China before the rest of the world. 

ADDED: I was wrong about the comments. Or at least the most popular, which support Yuen: