Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab voiced a thinly veiled criticism of HSBC on Monday after the bank backed China's national security law for Hong Kong, contradicting the British government's opposition to it.
FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a logo of HSBC bank at the financial and business district of La Defense near Paris as France begun a gradual end to a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus disease , May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
“In relation to HSBC, ultimately businesses will make their own judgement calls,” Raab told a daily news briefing in response to a question from Reuters about what message he would send to the bank.
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