轉 Japan Times:Hong Kong to unveil depth of recession amid protests and trade war

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Hong Kong to unveil depth of recession amid protests and trade war

Hong Kong confirmed on Friday its economy plunged into the first recession in a decade in the third quarter, weighed down by increasingly violent anti-government protests and the escalating U.S.-China trade war. The economy shrank from the previous quarter by a seasonally adjusted 3.2 percent ...

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