{
  "id": 16140548,
  "title": "How Hong Kong can go from passive trade hub to regional control tower",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/how-hong-kong-can-go-from-passive-trade-hub-to-regional-control-tower-16140548",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T01:30:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3371585/how-hong-kong-can-go-passive-trade-hub-regional-control-tower"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "This year has opened a rare window of relative calm in global commerce. On October 8, the World Trade Organization doubled its forecast for global goods trade growth, from 1.9 to 3.9 per cent. The easing of US-China and Europe-China tensions has given open economies some breathing space. Hong Kong has seized the moment. Its exports rose 42.5 per cent year on year in the first eight months of…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}