A 2007 studyby Chang Shu, Nathan Chow andJun-Yu Chan at theHong KongMonetaryAuthoritytook advantage of this interlude tomeasure the influenceofChina's yuanonotherregionalcurrencies.
His job keeps him in Taipei or on the road most days, but he stays in contact with Kuan-Shu's director, Hong, and gets updates from his wife, who meets with Hong weekly.
"The so-called policy of positive non-interventionism before the handover was actually a policy of no commitment and no planning, " says Tsang Shu-ki, economics professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.