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The Hong Kong budget earmarked HK$20 billion for the Hong Kong Shenzhen Innovation and Technology park. And that’s just for starters. But this poses the question of why Hong Kong should pay for it when Shenzhen will be the principal beneficiary

Hong Kong innovators

Jake'S View | The tale of murkiness that is the Lok Ma Chau Loop

3 Mar 2018 - 8:34PM

Diplomacy

Jake'S View | China non-apology for CCTV blackface skit all wrong

24 Feb 2018 - 7:24PM

Disney

Jake'S View | Plug Disney’s cash sinkhole forever, and use magic land for homes

21 Feb 2018 - 10:51PM

Jake'S View | China’s got a trade problem that can’t be solved by Belt and Road

Take away the trade surpluses with the US and European Union, and China has pretty much consistently run a big trade deficit with the rest of the world

19 Feb 2018 - 11:02PM

The Belt and Road International Food Expo 2018 highlighted opportunities related to food investment during a conference held in Hong Kong in June 2017. Photos; Dickson Lee

Hong Kong’s Transport Department has its head poked deep into the sand

17 Feb 2018 - 11:36PM

Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF)

Jake'S View | Guess again if you think the MPF has outperformed inflation

Statistics that show the Mandatory Provident Fund outpacing inflation shouldn’t be trusted

12 Feb 2018 - 11:54PM

China’s military

Jake'S View | Boast of rail gun tech shows the risks of a command economy

A command economy is much better than a market economy at moving special projects rapidly to completion. There are no budget debates, no public consultations and no required licences or permits. But whether they end with a bang or with a whimper, command economies carry their doom with them

11 Feb 2018 - 8:34AM

Chinese sailors stand at attention on board a Chinese naval ship during a visit to Davao city, southern Philippines. Photo: Reuters

Hong Kong housing

Jake'S View | Hong Kong’s housing shortage is one of aspirations, not needs

7 Feb 2018 - 11:28PM

Hong Kong high-speed rail

Jake'S View | Dodgy maths puts the high-speed rail’s profitability forever away

5 Feb 2018 - 11:27PM

Regulation

Jake'S View | Mainland stock listings are taking Hong Kong rules for granted

ZhongAn Online’s news of a huge boom in car insurance revenues is clearly something that could affect the stock’s share price. But on the Hong Kong exchange’s announcement board there was nothing about this. Company officials, however, were quite willing to tell one of our reporters

4 Feb 2018 - 12:57AM

Donald Trump

Jake'S View | Should the world pay China for the right to use paper, or movable type?

Intellectual property protection does more to inhibit creativity than to promote it. We reward people to stop other people from making use of ideas that are really attributable to all of society.

30 Jan 2018 - 12:09AM

Investing

Jake'S View | Money laundering and the fuss over ATM withdrawals

28 Jan 2018 - 12:20AM

Regulation

Jake'S View | What if the justice secretary’s actions spur people to snub the law?

25 Jan 2018 - 12:31AM

China economy

Jake'S View | In China, the sum of the economic parts can be greater than the whole

22 Jan 2018 - 11:33PM

Trade

Jake'S View | Americans love Chinese goods, even as Trump itches for a trade war

23 Mar 2018 - 12:58PM

China’s massive trade surplus with the US may be a headache for American officials, but there are few substitutes for the goods rolling out of Chinese factories.

Hong Kong property

Jake'S View | Illegal structures is a political bomb, not insensitivity

10 Jan 2018 - 7:50PM

Bitcoin

Jake'S View | The world needs an alternative to fiat currency. Is bitcoin it?

31 Aug 2018 - 9:48PM

Hong Kong high-speed rail

Jake'S View | When it comes to co-location, it’s all about who is in control

7 Jan 2018 - 3:11AM

The West Kowloon Terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link. Photo: Nora Tam

Hong Kong high-speed rail

Jake'S View | Hong Kong’s joint checkpoint shows the emperor is never far away

3 Jan 2018 - 11:16PM

Trade

Jake'S View | This Christmas, Americans should reflect on where their gifts come from

20 Dec 2017 - 11:15PM

IPO

Why does Hong Kong need dual-class stocks, with tech IPOs aplenty?

19 Dec 2017 - 2:31AM

The end of an era, as floor trading ended at the Hong Kong stock exchange on October 27, 2017. All floor traders gathered alongside executives of the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited to mark the ceremony. Photo: SCMP/Edward Wong.

Investing

Jake'S View | Courts on dangerous ground in aluminium maker short-selling case

17 Dec 2017 - 12:42AM

Aluminium capacity cutbacks have led to improvements in market equilibrium, helping shore up the prices of aluminium producers such as China Hongqiao. Photo: Reuters

Jake'S View | Don’t put too much store by expat cost of living surveys

13 Dec 2017 - 10:55PM

Donald Trump

Trump folly’s to cut corporate tax will change nothing

11 Dec 2017 - 10:47PM

Jake'S View | Strange case of robber bitten for spoofing his own stock

9 Dec 2017 - 9:29PM

A broker looks at an electronic board showing stock market movements at a securities brokerage in Beijing, China. Photo: EPA

Infrastructure

Jake'S View | Contractors keep bilking us for cost overruns because they can

6 Dec 2017 - 11:08PM

Hong Kong has little choice but to hand over funds to secure the completion of the MTR's Shatin to Central Link. Photo: SCMP

Start-ups

Jake'S View | Sixteen years on, is Science Park coming to its business sense?

4 Dec 2017 - 11:10PM

Jake'S View | Does an inverted yield curve spell trouble for US economy?

3 Dec 2017 - 1:13AM

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Jake van der Kamp has been writing wide-ranging business columns for the South China Morning Post and Sunday Morning Post for more than a decade. A longtime Hong Kong resident, he started as a Post business reporter in 1978, soon made a career change to investment analyst and then returned to the newspaper in 1998 as a financial columnist.