{"id":35657,"date":"2025-09-24T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35657\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:02:12","slug":"hong-kong-finance-chief-defends-market-as-critics-warn-of-beijings-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35657\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong finance chief defends market as critics warn of Beijing&#8217;s grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Analyst cautions that city risks becoming China&#8217;s &#8216;financial aircraft carrier&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20250924 hui interview\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Christopher Hui, Hong Kong&#8217;s secretary for financial services and the treasury, speaks with Nikkei Asia. (Photo by Kensaku Ihara)<\/p>\n<p>PEGGY YE and KENSAKU IHARA<\/p>\n<p>September 24, 2025 13:26 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; The top financial official in Hong Kong is defending the city&#8217;s market as a bastion of stability and a place of promise, pointing to revived stock listings and new financial initiatives, while skeptics warn Beijing is steering the territory into a role that could leave foreign investors exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Analyst cautions that city risks becoming China&#8217;s &#8216;financial aircraft carrier&#8217; Christopher Hui, Hong Kong&#8217;s secretary for financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29506,114,9269,29505,29504,184,268,29507,29502,85,46,29503,5257,26397],"class_list":["post-35657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beijings","tag-business","tag-chief","tag-critics","tag-defends","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-grip","tag-hong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kong","tag-market","tag-warn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}