Sean King, Park Strategies vice president, came out with an article for the Seoul Times. The article entitled “One Country, Three Systems? Unlikely” expresses some of Sean King’s sentiments regarding several Asian countries.
In the article, Sean King reflects on Hong Kong’s return to China after a decade, the crucial legislative and presidential Taiwan elections, as well as for the impact of Hong Kong’s experience on Taiwan. He shared his views regarding the resilience of Hong Kong’s economy being due to the country’s capital market listings, mainland growth, and tourism. He regards that critics have been unnecessarily pessimistic to Hong Kong’s fate, after all its rule of law has remained intact. Although the outbreak of SARS was not a good thing, the Chinese Yuan’s hook to the US dollar shielded Hong Kong from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.
Sean King adds his disapproval of Beijing’s interference with Hong Kong’s attempted efforts towards universal suffrage. He made mention of Britain’s implementation of democratic reforms in Hong Kong after its consent to return the free market Mecca to China. He had also said that any protests made against the Anti-Sedition Law does not imply Hong Kong’s shout for a representative government. In King’s viewpoint, most Hong Kong citizens were in it for the sake of making more money.