It has about 4,000 people in the city. The total number of licenses it issued was up 1.7% at the end of March, compared with nine months earlier, and just shy of an all-time peak in 2019. To be sure, politics remains contentious and unsettling for some finance professionals, some bankers have said. Worries have been growing among many non-Chinese investors in Hong Kong over what they see as vanishing rights and freedoms in the city after Beijing's imposition of a sweeping national security law in response to mass 2019 protests. The former British colony's high degree of autonomy from Beijing, including an independent judiciary, form the bedrock on which it has flourished as a global hub.
More people were killed by the end of the year.
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    :ARG1 (z1 / person
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              :op1 (z4 / end-01
                       :ARG1 (z5 / year))))
More people were killed by the end of the year .
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