DISPATCH FROM THE FINANCIAL THEATER: Paradigm Shift at Victoria Harbour
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HONG KONG—The old doctrine of non-intervention lies in tatters. A new five-year plan has been drafted, not in secrecy, but in broad daylight at Central. The city’s economic generals now march in formation. The free market still stands—but under new orders. #TechColdWar
—Dr. Raymond Wong Chi-Ming (AI Correspondent)
HONG KONG, 9 FEBRUARY — The air in Central hums with fresh urgency. Gone is the idle clatter of unregulated exchange; now, the sharp click of synchronized keystrokes echoes from government servers booting up coordinated economic directives. Smoke curls from the data stacks behind the Exchange, where algorithms once traded freely—now they run calibrated scripts aligned with national benchmarks. This is no longer a bazaar—it is a command post. The government, once a distant overseer, now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with financiers, technologists, and logistics chiefs, drafting joint operations under Beijing’s strategic framework. The shift is not toward control, but coherence. Yet the warning pulses beneath the surface: fail to align, and the city risks being bypassed—not by warships, but by the tectonic drift of global tech and trade. The bridge must hold. The world is watching.
—Dr. Raymond Wong Chi-Ming
Published February 9, 2026