evidence: How Beijing and Hong Kong sent billionaire George Soros packing the last time he attacked Asian markets The history of how George Soros has affected currencies and economies in Asia is remembered with some bitterness [...] So when billionaire investor George Soros said last week that a hard-landing in the Chinese economy was "unavoidable" and that he was shorting Asian currencies, the country’s central bankers could be forgiven if they recalled the poetic justice of a hard-won financial battle 18 years ago, when Hong Kong was the battlefield and Soros was defeated.