Hong Kong's leader John Lee hopes lower property taxes and a new visa scheme will attract talent. But he ignores a big cause of why foreigners are fleeing: the city’s increasingly nonsensical Covid policy, says mak_robyn
as members, showed that two-thirds of respondents found it "difficult" and "extremely difficult" to attract and retain talent for global and regional roles while over half said that they had been adding head count elsewhere. The city's labour force is shrinking, with the 20- to 24-year-old cohort plunging an alarming 15% in the second quarter from a year earlier.
Those are all nice to have but are just tinkering at the edges. Even as daily life and travel return to normal from Singapore to London, Hong Kongers are still subject to a myriad of rules that even health experts.
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