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Hong Kong's foreign businesses object to dissident protest

FOREIGN businesses in Hong Kong said today that they opposed a dissident group’s plans for an Occupy-style protest.

In a newspaper advertisement, Canadian, Indian, Italian and Bahraini business groups called for organisers to rethink “disruptive plans” to blockade the central business district.

Calls for a protest began after Beijing released a policy paper on Tuesday reminding activists that it had ultimate control of Hong Kong.

The Chinese cabinet press office said some people were “confused or lopsided in their understanding of the one country, two systems policy.” 

This misunderstanding had led to “many wrong views” about the city’s economy, society and the development of its political system.

China’s central government has “comprehensive jurisdiction” over Hong Kong and is the source of the city’s high degree of autonomy, the Beijing missive said.

The document was seen as a warning ahead of the protest.

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