{"id":59527,"date":"2023-10-31T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/chinas-billionaires-looking-to-move-their-cash-and-themselves-out"},"modified":"2023-10-31T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:10:08","slug":"chinas-billionaires-looking-to-move-their-cash-and-themselves-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59527","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s billionaires looking to move their cash, and themselves, out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crackdowns on financiers, roiling political climate and slowing economy under Xi Jinping has many seeking exit plans<\/p>\n<p>Billionaires are notoriously difficult to track. It\u2019s no surprise \u2013 the easier they and their assets are to find, the easier they are to tax. But by all accounts, the number of uber-wealthy people in China is in decline. Of the world\u2019s estimated 2,640 billionaires, at least 562 are thought to be in China, according to Forbes, down from 607 last year.<\/p>\n<p>With crackdowns on financiers and a roiling political climate, many of China\u2019s rich people are looking to move their money, and themselves, out of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/chinas-billionaires-looking-to-move-their-cash-and-themselves-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crackdowns on financiers, roiling political climate and slowing economy under Xi Jinping has many seeking exit plansBillionaires are notoriously difficult to track. It\u2019s no surprise \u2013 the easier they and their assets are to find, the easier they are to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,1203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-inequality","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\/59527","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59527\/revisions\/59528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}