{"id":70147,"date":"2025-03-14T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/14\/china-criticises-hong-kong-firms-sale-of-majority-stake-in-panama-ports"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:58:22","slug":"china-criticises-hong-kong-firms-sale-of-majority-stake-in-panama-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70147","title":{"rendered":"China criticises Hong Kong firm\u2019s sale of  majority stake in Panama ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary urged CK Hutchison to \u2018think twice\u2019 about \u2018what position and side they are on\u2019 in sale to US investors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/mar\/14\/uk-economy-shrink-january-decline-factory-output-gold-markets-correction-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has criticised the sale of the business that controls ports in Panama to US investors, saying the Hong Kong-based parent company should \u201cthink twice\u201d and that the $22.8bn deal is \u201cpower politics\u201d that is not in the country\u2019s national interest.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison fell more than 6% on Friday after a critical commentary appeared in the Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/14\/china-criticises-hong-kong-firms-sale-of-majority-stake-in-panama-ports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary urged CK Hutchison to \u2018think twice\u2019 about \u2018what position and side they are on\u2019 in sale to US investorsBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesChina has criticised the sale of the business that controls ports in Panama to US investors, saying the Hong &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"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":[246,41,6,50,48,1541,1443,3234,1980,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-marco-rubio","category-panama","category-panama-canal","category-shipping-industry","category-us-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\/70147","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\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70148,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70147\/revisions\/70148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}