{"id":41429,"date":"2022-02-07T02:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-americans-join-hong-kongs-business-exodus"},"modified":"2022-02-07T02:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:39:51","slug":"no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-americans-join-hong-kongs-business-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41429","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No light at the end of the tunnel\u2019 \u2013 Americans join Hong Kong\u2019s business exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worsening Sino-US ties, strict Covid rules, and the crackdown on dissent have dented the territory\u2019s fabled allure as a business hub, say expats<\/p>\n<p>In July 2018, Tara Joseph, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, wrote an article in the best-known local English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, stressing to Americans the territory\u2019s unique position an Asian business hub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US is forgetting the differences between Hong Kong and China. Let\u2019s remind them,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHong Kong continues to have a robust and hearty infrastructure of values, practices and institutions that could not contrast more starkly with those of the mainland system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-americans-join-hong-kongs-business-exodus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worsening Sino-US ties, strict Covid rules, and the crackdown on dissent have dented the territory\u2019s fabled allure as a business hub, say expatsIn July 2018, Tara Joseph, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, wrote an article in t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[1840,41,6,50,556,1066,437,558,1617,48,1070,557,1793,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbnb","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-coronavirus","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-hm","category-hong-kong","category-hsbc","category-international-trade","category-standard-chartered","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41429","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41429\/revisions\/41436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}