Hong Kong-Taiwan nexus forged by critical events of the last year

By Frank Ching

Jun 09, 2020 12:02 am

A YEAR ago this week, an unusual relationship started to develop between Hong Kong, a former British colony and now a Chinese special region, and Taiwan, a democracy with a highly developed economy.

The two shared much in common: Hong Kong had been folded into China in 1997 under the “one country, two systems” rubric, and Beijing intends the same fate for Taiwan.

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