{"id":65788,"date":"2024-07-22T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/hong-kong-trade-hub-report"},"modified":"2024-07-22T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:00:30","slug":"hong-kong-is-global-trade-hub-for-worlds-most-brutal-regimes-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65788","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong is global trade hub for world\u2019s most brutal regimes, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a year<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has become a global trade hub for \u201cthe world\u2019s most brutal regimes\u201d, according to a report examining the city\u2019s role in facilitating the flow of goods to countries under sanctions by the west, including Russia, Iran and North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>A report published on Monday by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, a campaign group, found that between 2021 and 2022, exports of semiconductors from Hong Kong to Russia roughly doubled to $400m (\u00a3310m), second only to shipments from mainland China. Semiconductors are vital to Russia\u2019s war effort as they are a component in weaponry such as drones and cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/hong-kong-trade-hub-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a yearHong Kong has become a global trade hub for \u201cthe world\u2019s most brutal regimes\u201d, according to a report examining the city\u2019s role in facilita&#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":[41,221,48,419,79,1787,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-russia","category-society","category-trade-and-development","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65788","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=65788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65789,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65788\/revisions\/65789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}