2023 Issue 48

Concern grows that the Chinese Communist Party is covering up another deadly disease outbreak and Politico publishes a piece on the implications of Xi Jinping’s ongoing purge of his loyalists.

A second reporter from the South China Morning Post has disappeared in the PRC and the silence of SCMP’s leadership is particularly disturbing.  It suggests that reporters working for the outlet are not safe. 

Hong Kong’s stock exchange is the world’s worse performing, yet sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East continue to pour money in, even as the Chinese leader delays a key economic meeting.