Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte speaks inside the Southorn Stadium during a thanksgiving ...

About 125 countries have signed the court’s foundational treaty, the Rome Statute, but China, which has control over Hong Kong, has not. Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2019 ...

But China, which controls Hong Kong, has not signed on. Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2019, which activists argued was an attempt to evade accountability and prevent an ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.