Viewsroom: Wirecard, Hong Kong and Tesla
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🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the Views from a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, coming here from Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 0:57.7 | This week I hopped around the globe to speak to a few of our columnists about some of the stories that have been lighting up your inboxes. First, I chatted with Pete Sweeney in Hong Kong to get his take on the new security law that China has rammed through the former British colony. In a nutshell, it ain't looking good over there. Then I spoke to Liam Proud in London about the unfolding scandal around German payments provider wire card. |
| 1:03.0 | Also not good, particularly what this whole fiasco has revealed about the country's regulatory apparatus. |
| 1:09.4 | Last but not least, I called Anthony Curry in New York for his take on Tesla becoming the world's most valuable car company. |
| 1:10.5 | Give it a listen. |
| 1:11.6 | Pete, good to speak to you. |
| 1:13.6 | I wanted to really get your thoughts on this new security law that's come down in Hong Kong. |
| 1:18.6 | It's got a lot of people quite concerned. |
| 1:21.6 | Maybe you can kind of drill through some of the main questions or issues that I think people, global business travelers |
| 1:29.3 | or finance people might in particular find quite problematic with what's come out of. |
| 1:36.3 | Sure, Rob. Well, first, I don't think anybody was expecting this law to be soft. |
| 1:41.3 | And the way that it was rammed through in Beijing going around the local legislature |
| 1:45.8 | had already raised some eyebrows. But the actual text itself is also alarming to some. One of the |
| 1:52.6 | major surprises in it that I think people did not expect is an extraterritorial clause by which this law |
| 1:59.0 | in Hong Kong is seen as applying to non-residents outside of China. |
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