ESG issues such as climate change and other environmental and social variables….have traditionally been considered extra-financial risks. That kind of implies they don't matter financially, that they're social issues or somehow extra-curricular to the serious business of investing.
The GE story, because it is such a massive pile of the corporate credit market and the IG market, how that plays out is kind of critical to the IG market.
We, the Hong Kong public, will not stand these remarks likening our rights to slavery, nor will we stand the kind of voter disenfranchisement her and her associates attempt to perpetrate on the Hong Kong public.