\u201cHong Kong must wake up to the dangers of US port and shipping threats \u201c While the world obsesses about Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, \u201ca quieter but potentially more lasting confrontation is taking shape that could remake global trade infrastructure.\u201d The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) recently \u201cconcluded an investigation into China\u2019s shipbuilding and maritime sectors\u201d and \u201cits impact on the global trade architecture could be just as profound. If Hong Kong is \u201cto remain a serious player on the international stage, we must respond with urgency, clarity and conviction\u201d to measures that could include \u201cper-voyage service fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-controlled vessels calling at US ports, as well as proposed tariffs on Chinese-made ship-to-shore cranes and other key port equipment\u201d while requiring that LNG carriers be US-built, \u201cphasing out Chinese-made ships from the trade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHong Kong must wake up to the dangers of US port and shipping threats \u201c While the world obsesses about Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, \u201ca quieter but potentially more lasting confrontation is taking shape that could remake global trade infrastructure.\u201d The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) recently \u201cconcluded an investigation into China\u2019s shipbuilding and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,1514,7057,3334,384,1067,4238,16519,8861,16518,16517,16516,3160,16520,5161,8],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-china","tag-confrontation","tag-dangers","tag-global-trade","tag-hong-kong","tag-infrastructure","tag-maritime","tag-per-voyage-service-fees","tag-port","tag-ship-to-shore-cranes","tag-shipbuilding","tag-shipping-threats","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-representative","tag-trump","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12851,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/12851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}