bernard chan, in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ot back recently from beijing, where you were a delegate at the national people's congress. how does the leadership in beijing view hong kong? well, obviously hong kong plays a very important role for china, especially during these whole trade war tensions. now, hong kong is a special administrative region, so we are china, but yet we have a special status. we have different trade agreements with the rest of the world, so i think we play a very special purpose for them. and you have met president xi jinping multiple times, in groups, discussing hong kong and other affairs. when he was vice president, he was in charge of hong kong. you also knew him there. what is his personal opinion of hong kong? well, as i said, hong kong is a very special place for china, and we are part of china, but yet we have this special status. we can do things that perhaps the rest of china can't do. we have the rule of law, that international investors would like to do business with. so i think we have this