Hong Kong’s leader says his government opposes coercion by foreign governments, an allusion to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, but stopped short of criticizing a prominent local conglomerate’s decision to sell its Panama Canal port assets to

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Tuesday his government was opposed to "coercion" and "bullying tactics" by foreign governments after being asked about conglomerate CK Hutchison's port deal with U.

For months, Trump has complained that China controls shipping in the Panama Canal, which was built by the United States more than a century ago to link the Pacific and Atlantic oceans

Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s business empire is in the crosshairs after CK Hutchison Holdings chose to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a consortium that includes U.S. investment firm BlackRock Inc.

The statements took shots at CK Hutchison's $23 billion sale of the Panama Canal-adjacent ports to BlackRock as "bullying" without mentioning the U.S. by name.

Hong Kong's richest man, billionaire Li Ka-shing, has angered China with his newest Panama ports deal with US investment firm BlackRock. We explain who he is, and what happened.