I am surprised there are only 9,025 foreign companies in Hong Kong. "Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) reports that more than 37,000 international companies, including 7,000 MNCs, have their headquarters in Singapore."
Did the HK government use a definition of "foreign companies" that favours the narrative?
So UK companies fell from 713 to 665, while US companies fell from 1,343 to 1283. In total a drop of 108 foreign companies. So the 107 companies that opened are from which country? The big brother on the west?
And here's the numbers that matter from Nikkei:
2.8% drop in number of non mainland and local firms
10,000 fewer foreign staff (about 2% drop)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Fin...us-in-11-years