political leverage 政治籌碼

political leverage
繁：政治籌碼
简：政治筹码

蓬佩奧的聲明說，「中共嚇唬匯豐尤其應該被視為警世故事」，王冬勝的「表忠」行為沒能換取北京對匯豐的半分尊重，北京「繼續利用該銀行之在華業務作為對付倫敦的政治籌碼」。

匯豐銀行：香港《國安法》、華為與肺炎疫情全攤上　「世界的地方銀行」在多重風口浪尖上浮沉（2020年6月11日）。BBC中文，取自https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/business-52990113

He said that last week’s signing of a petition supporting the new legislation by HSBC’s Asia-Pacific CEO, Peter Wong, was a “show of fealty seems to have earned HSBC little respect in Beijing, which continues to use the bank’s business in China as political leverage against London”.

Mike Pompeo criticises HSBC for backing Hong Kong security law. (2020, June 10). BBC. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52989121