Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing has appealed for an end to violent clashes between police and protesters in the city
VCG via Getty Imageshas urged the city’s pro-democracy movement to “love China, love Hong Kong and love yourself” in a series of newspaper advertisements addressing protester and police violence.
An anti-government protester wearing a symbolic eyepatch at a sit-in protest at Hong Kong international airport.Li Ka-shing is the latest of member of Hong Kong’s business elite to intervene in the political crisis that has gripped the semiautonomous city for the last three months.
Li retired as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings in 2018 joking that he’d been “working for a long time, too long.” Over 700 people have been arrested since the protests began in June and violence from both the protestors and the police has escalated.
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