Comment / HutchWatch: Beijing's ire and Singapore's dilemma

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Welcome to HutchWatch, an irregular column on the unfolding sale of Hutchison Port Holdings to the Terminal Investment Ltd (TiL)-BlackRock consortium.

Here’s where we stand.

First

There appears to be growing anger in China over the deal, largely expressed through a couple of op-ed pieces in the pro-Beijing Hong Kong news outlet Ta Kung Pao and later republished verbatim on the website of the Chinese government’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, indicating the views came with Beijing’s seal of approval.

This was followed ...