{"id":190285,"date":"2025-06-17T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190285\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T00:15:13","slug":"trump-tariffs-shine-spotlight-on-chinese-targeting-southeast-asian-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190285\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs shine spotlight on Chinese targeting Southeast Asian consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s volatile tariff policy was supposed to hammer Gong Yongqiang&#8217;s Christmas decoration business.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Instead, his factories have been churning out goods at full capacity since May. Sales for the entire year are on track to grow by 20% from 2023, supported by a surprising surge in demand from countries including Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia, according to Gong, who has been exporting Santa Claus figures and other Christmas objects from China for the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG &#8212; U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s volatile tariff policy was supposed to hammer Gong Yongqiang&#8217;s Christmas decoration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[29071,51,16536,26514,1700,78005,78007,32744,78006,479,1757,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asian","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-consumers","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-shine","14":"tag-southeast","15":"tag-spotlight","16":"tag-targeting","17":"tag-tariffs","18":"tag-trump","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114695827145458866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}