Everywhere else in the world, nationals are employed preferentially. It is also true that expats are terminated in order to create positions for the unemployed nationals.
This is the risk we all understood when we chose to became expat “mercenaries”. High reward = high risk. We all knew that eventually the dice wouldn’t roll in our favour and it was time to find a new casino to try our luck in.
It surprises me that with so many unemployed HK National pilots that the government has not yet forced this issue. It will be inevitable.
As for
PR, the HK government must surely be asking itself what value is it to HK. What is it that a
PR holder contributes that a non-
PR holder doesn’t. That someone with 6 years and 354 days of living in HK has lesser value than one with 7 years and 1 day makes zero sense. With Beijing exerting more control every day, I suspect these questions are being asked.