Hong Kong’s Crypto Ambitions Tangle With Political Realities
Two senior figures in China Hong Kong have withdrawn from the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference, where Eric Trump, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, is set to speak. According to sources, they received an instruction not to attend or interact with the American businessman. Eric Yip Chee-hang, executive director of the city’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), and legislator Johnny Ng Kit-chong, a technology entrepreneur, were both removed from the event’s speaker list, according to an investigation by South China Morning Post [1]. The names of both individuals had previously appeared on the event’s website as of July 14, following a July 8 announcement that Eric Trump would discuss bitcoin’s “long-term potential” and…
