OPINION / EDITORIAL By Global Times Published: Jan 28, 2021 10:49 PM
Photo taken on July 9, 2019 shows Audi vehicles awaiting transfer at the parking lot of FAW-Volkswagen in Changchun, northeast China s Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and HSBC CEO Noel Quinn are facing Western criticism for their politically incorrect statements on China.
At the World Economic Forum, Diess said China is moving in the right direction and that it is easier to invest in China than China is allowed to invest in Germany or other places. Quinn said on the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that his bank was not in a position to question police requests when it agreed to freeze accounts of anti-government activists. He also said some senior HSBC executives experienced the violence during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019. Quinn replied to those hypocritical accusations against him that he was not going to comment on democracy because he s a ba