{"id":21970,"date":"2018-06-28T06:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21970"},"modified":"2018-06-28T06:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:09:44","slug":"quote-of-the-day-930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-930\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe risks for <strong>Sheldon Anderson<\/strong>\u2019s [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>Sands<\/strong> casinos are quite high. It is quite possible that <strong>China<\/strong> will target his casinos <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Adelson-Forbes-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Adelson-Forbes-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Adelson-Forbes-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Adelson-Forbes-785x1023.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>specifically because he is a [<strong>Donald<\/strong>] <strong>Trump<\/strong> crony. It is possible they will ratchet up police surveillance of his <strong>Macao<\/strong> properties in order to spread fear among high rollers and even middle-class gamblers that they are being checked in on by the authorities. Or they will launch an audit of their books. Either way, a move could be viewed as having plausible deniability that the government cloaks as a crackdown on corruption or tax evasion, as they did against <strong>Lotte<\/strong> in China&#8217;s battle with <strong>South Korea<\/strong>.\u201d &#8212;\u00a0<em><strong>China Market Research<\/strong> Managing Director <strong>Shaun Rein<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/muhammadcohen\/2018\/06\/25\/china-trade-war-potential-casualties-include-u-s-casinos-in-asia\/#6042443126f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">possible, casino-targeted blowback<\/a> from the current trade war between the U.S. and China<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe risks for Sheldon Anderson\u2019s [sic] Sands casinos are quite high. It is quite possible that China will target his casinos specifically because he is a [Donald] Trump crony. It is possible they will ratchet up police surveillance of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-930\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,22,62,12,187],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21977,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions\/21977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}