he had hong kong doesn't care the way that used to industrial mainland cities like juan joe and shane journ now rival its economic output. but hong kong separate legal and financial systems offer something those cities don't protection from beijing's reach for chinese political elites in need of sheltering cash that's no small consideration financial reporting in hong kong suggests that almost 60 percent of the $550000000000.00 in hong kong financial trusts comes from local and chinese sources that means party elites in china have other interests in hong kong besides the economy and that in turn could help shape beijing's response to the ongoing protests. and the author of that paper is under have been there she is with the global public policy institute in berlin and joins me in the studio welcome. so you say that china's elite will prevent the chinese government from removing hong kong special status what exactly have you found and health how hot how good is your evidence. ok so. what i do is that i studied a power relationship between offshore finance and a state in the relationship betw