Li Ka-shing, Ordinary Hong Kong Citizen, Weighs in

Hong Kong's tycoons have lined up to urge calm and support for the government as protests continued this week. Missing from the list, though, is the one known as Superman. When 91-year-old Li Ka-shing finally weighed in Friday, he threaded the needle – decrying violence but not, as Beijing has sought, clearly siding with Hong Kong’s administration in its standoff with the demonstrators. The city’s richest man appealed to love in advertisements placed in English- and Chinese-language newspapers and signed the note as “a Hong Kong citizen.’’ -- More...

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