Terry Wong Ping-sau, the CEO of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP), radiated nostalgia as he scrolled through a map on his phone, focusing on the place he called home for three years while working on the Neom project, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s massive smart-city development.“Look at this place,” he said. “This is Aqaba. I lived right there, on the shores of the Red Sea, at a crossroads of nations – bordered by Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The geography alone was...