Hang Seng is still below levels it touched years ago. Will it ever recover?

Japan’s Nikkei recently crossed 60,000. Taiwan’s market surged with the AI and semiconductor boom. Korea’s KOSPI is near record highs too. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is still sitting far below its peak from years ago. And this wasn’t supposed to happen. For a long time, China looked unstoppable economically. But then the property crisis hit. Evergrande alone had liabilities of more than $300 billion. At the same time, companies like Alibaba and Tencent faced heavy regulatory crackdowns tha