Some shipping companies are discreetly moving operations out of Hong Kong and taking vessels off its flag registry. Others are making contingency plans to do so.

FILE - In this file photo taken Sunday, May 24, 2020, a protester wave a U.S. national flag and a Hong Kong colonial flag during a protest against Beijing's national security legislation in Causeway ...

From London Foreign Secretary Liz Truss criticized China for breaching the legally-binding commitments it signed to support the former British ... with a flag-raising event at Hong Kong's Victoria ...