HONG KONG - From Slovakia to Japan, top Hong Kong officials have fired off at least 500 letters blasting critical foreign media coverage, as the city wages a global battle to safeguard its reputation
as a liberal financial hub.
Neighbouring Asian nations got 42 per cent of the complaints, led by Japan and South Korea, while business publications including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist got the most letters. Bloomberg received seven. Mr Yau added that the government was pushing to bolster the city's image in Central Asia, Islamic countries and Africa.
"We shall make good use of our discourse power to tell a good Hong Kong story and tell the achievements and real truth about the success of Hong Kong," Mr Lee said at his inauguration, echoing language used by China's president, Mr Xi Jinping.While opposition voices had been suppressed in Hong Kong's local media, international outlets were problematic for the government, according to professor of law and international affairs Michael Davis at O.P.
The letters often characterised foreign media coverage of such events as being a"grossly biased misrepresentation of facts" and accused them of making"groundless allegations".
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