Posted on 04/21/2005 1:30:58 PM PDT by Shermy
! Thanks !
ah grand old CIBC..
They hold my student loan...I'll be glad once that's paid in full!
That guy was one of Li Ka-shing's sons. Li Ka-shing is one of Hong Kong's self-made tycoons, but I don't think he acts as an arm of PRC foreign influence. In fact, Beijing was merciless in many of his investments in the mainland, and now that Hi Jintao rather than Jiang Zemin is in power, Li Ka-shing's prestige is pretty much in eclipse.
I would be more concerned if one of the "red" tycoons like Stanley Ho, Henry Fok (especially Henry Fok, who profited with the Communists since the days of the Korean War - he was already the PRC's favourite "red capitalist" long before they knew of Li Ka-shing), or the newer Chinese "daikuans" are involved.
It can't be the HSBC. HSBC is a British-owned bank which happens to be one of the few leftover Western companies that did lot of businesses in pre-Communist China that are still in business today. Use an earlier Mao-era Chinese Communist phrases, HSBC is regarded as "an agent of Western capitalist imperialism" by the Maoists.
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