{"635956":{"#nid":"635956","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"China Unveils Plan to Make Hainan a Free Trade Hub like Hong Kong, Singapore as Risks of U.S. Decoupling Loom","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article, \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3087206\/china-unveils-plan-make-hainan-free-trade-hub-hong-kong\u0022\u003EChina Unveils Plan to Make Hainan a Free Trade Hub like Hong Kong, Singapore as Risks of U.S. Decoupling Loom\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026quot; published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESouth China Morning Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on June 2, 2020. An expert in regional security challenges focusing on the U.S. and China, Wang is the author of seven books including his most recent,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power \u003C\/em\u003E(Suny Press, 2017).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang believes that the chance that Hainan will become another Hong Kong or another Hawaii is \u0026ldquo;very slim, if any at all.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe key restriction, as usual, is political: there can be only so much \u0026lsquo;freedom\u0026rsquo; of anything under the omnipresent party that has to control everything.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Hainan cannot copy the critical advantages of Hong Kong without a fundamental political transformation [of China]: A well-established rule of law that protects property rights; individual freedoms; enforcement of contracts; and a good relationship with the West and the US in particular. The rest is just add-ons,\u0026rdquo; Wang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3087206\/china-unveils-plan-make-hainan-free-trade-hub-hong-kong\u0022\u003ERead the full\u0026nbsp;article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-06-04 15:47:11","changed_gmt":"2020-06-04 15:53:31","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Kalina Paunovska","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3087206\/china-unveils-plan-make-hainan-free-trade-hub-hong-kong","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"574741":{"id":"574741","type":"image","title":"Fei-Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1473436975","gmt_created":"2016-09-09 16:02:55","changed":"1475895383","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:23","alt":"Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"207184","name":"feilingwangweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52156,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg?itok=tmsC6w_F"}}},"media_ids":["574741"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"185001","name":"Hainan"},{"id":"12187","name":"Fei-Ling Wang"},{"id":"1188","name":"International Affairs"},{"id":"185002","name":"free trade zone"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}