{"id":20288,"date":"2020-07-08T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/chinas-grip-on-hong-kong-eroding-its-status-as-financial-hub-investors-believe"},"modified":"2020-07-08T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:28:53","slug":"chinas-grip-on-hong-kong-eroding-its-status-as-financial-hub-investors-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20288","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s grip on Hong Kong eroding its status as financial hub, investors believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money has already started leaving Hong Kong, with US$5bn quitting the territory last year, according to Bank of England figures<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government\u2019s increasingly tight grip on Hong Kong is undermining the former British colony\u2019s position as a regional financial hub, analysts and investors say.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest move to clamp down on Hong Kong, which has been a centre of resistance against the ruling Chinese Communist party, the mainland government last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">introduced<\/a> a sweeping national security law that criminalises protest and dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/chinas-grip-on-hong-kong-eroding-its-status-as-financial-hub-investors-believe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money has already started leaving Hong Kong, with US$5bn quitting the territory last year, according to Bank of England figuresThe Chinese government\u2019s increasingly tight grip on Hong Kong is undermining the former British colony\u2019s position as a region&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,6,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-business","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions\/20289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}