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{
"time": "2015-05-05 12:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Audrey Eu",
"fr": "Mme Audrey Eu"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4101403\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I'll take this one.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4101404\" data-originallang=\"en\">The business sector, of course, is also divided. Probably you have more business tycoons siding with China because that's where the business interests lie. That's where the business opportunities are. As well, Beijing keeps a very tight ring. They will know who is donating or who wants to donate to a democratic cause, and there may be repercussions. That is why it's always very difficult for any democratic association in Hong Kong to get any kind of large donations. The business sector is very jittery about this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4101405\" data-originallang=\"en\">But then, of course, you also have some business people who are very keen that Hong Kong carry on the way it was, because for businesses you need a constant environment. You need rule of law and a level playing field, whereas with China there is a lot of corruption, a lot of change in rules and regulations, with sort of hidden agendas, and so on. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4101406\" data-originallang=\"en\">That's why business people prefer doing business in Hong Kong, for obvious reasons.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4101403\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais y r\u00e9pondre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4101404\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c9videmment, le secteur des affaires est lui aussi divis\u00e9. Il y a probablement plus de magnats des affaires qui se rangent du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la Chine, puisque c'est dans leur int\u00e9r\u00eat. C'est en Chine que les occasions d'affaires se trouvent. Par ailleurs, il y a un cercle tr\u00e8s restreint autour de Beijing. On sait qui fait des dons ou qui veut contribuer \u00e0 une cause d\u00e9mocratique, et il y a des r\u00e9percussions. C'est pour cette raison qu'il est toujours tr\u00e8s difficile pour une association d\u00e9mocratique de Hong Kong d'obtenir des dons importants. Le secteur des affaires est tr\u00e8s nerveux \u00e0 ce sujet. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4101405\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mais il y a \u00e9videmment aussi des gens d'affaires qui tiennent beaucoup \u00e0 ce que Hong Kong ne change pas, puisque les affaires exigent de la stabilit\u00e9. Elles exigent le respect de la r\u00e8gle de droit et des r\u00e8gles du jeu \u00e9quitables, et, en Chine, il y a beaucoup de corruption, beaucoup de changements dans les r\u00e8gles et la r\u00e9glementation, avec des intentions cach\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4101406\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est pour cela que les gens d'affaires pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent Hong Kong, pour des raisons \u00e9videntes. </p>"
},
"url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/58/audrey-eu-12/",
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"source_id": "8680999",
"document_url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/58/",
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