David R. Meyer, Senior Lecturer in Management at Olin Business School (Washington University in St. Louis) published an article in Area Development and Policy (published online on 08 April 2020) ‘The Hong Kong protests will not undermine it as a leading global financial centre’. Drawing on the ‘geography of finance’ research and its focus on financial networks as a means to explain how financial centres operate and other empirical evidence, Meyer’s article argues that Hong Kong’s status as the leading Asia-Pacific financial centre and as head of China’s financial centre networks is secure for three reasons: China’s government will continue to support it; Hong Kong’s financial networks possess extraordinary scale and sophistication; and no viable alternative centre has emerged to challenge Hong Kong as Asia-Pacific leader.
The original ADP article has recently been cited in a Forbes article ‘Can Hong Kong’s Financial Market Survive Without The Free Flow Of Information?’ written by Mark Clifford and published online on the 1st July 2020. You can read the full Forbes article here