{"id":158105,"date":"2026-09-29T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158105"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:30:11","slug":"hong-kong-mustnt-miss-the-boat-on-the-pinglu-canal-and-asean-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158105","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong mustn\u2019t miss the boat on the Pinglu Canal and Asean trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe official opening of the Pinglu Canal on September 16 is a milestone in modern Chinese history. More than an infrastructural feat, it signals a strategic recalibration of how China\u2019s inland economies connect with the sea and Southeast Asia, and augurs the next phase of regional growth.<br \/>\nDesigned for vessels of up to 5,000 tonnes, the 134.2km (83.4 mile) waterway stretches from the Xijin reservoir in Hengzhou, an emerging city in Guangxi, to the Gulf of Tonkin (known as the Beibu Gulf in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3368947\/hong-kong-mustnt-miss-boat-pinglu-canal-and-asean-trade?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe official opening of the Pinglu Canal on September 16 is a milestone in modern Chinese history. More than an infrastructural feat, it signals&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}