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HONG KONG: /U.S.: Per BBG: "Top advisers to President Donald Trump have ruled

out undermining the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the greenback as they seek to

punish China for infringing on the territory's political freedoms, according to

people familiar with the matter. Aides at the White House and State department

had weighed the possibility of limiting Hong Kong banks' access to U.S. dollars

as a way of striking back at Beijing, Bloomberg News reported last week. But

they dropped the idea after advocates could not gather enough support, with

those against the move concerned that it would be difficult to implement and

could end up hurting the U.S., according to one of the people."