India, June 6 -- Worsening Sino-American relations and China's rising authoritarianism are bound to impact how funds flow into Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is everything that Mainland China is not-there is freedom of speech, it has credible and independent financial institutions with a squeaky-clean track record and a fully convertible currency. All these have led to its rise as one of the three global financial centres after New York and London; and it plays a pivotal role in global finance. This stands to be altered with Chinese President Xi Jinping's repeated efforts to undermine the treaty the CCP had signed with the UK in 1997, by subverting its democratic culture, imposing draconian rules and insisting on imposing policies of Mainland Chi...