{"id":12059,"date":"2019-12-12T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/liberal-party-member-denies-links-to-chinese-communist-party-after-belt-and-road-controversy"},"modified":"2019-12-12T02:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:00:43","slug":"liberal-party-member-denies-links-to-chinese-communist-party-after-belt-and-road-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12059","title":{"rendered":"Liberal party member denies links to Chinese Communist party after Belt and Road controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>References to Belt and Road initiative appeared on invitations to Chinese-Australian fundraising dinner<\/p>\n<p>A Liberal party member who helped organise a Chinese-Australian business fundraising dinner has denied links to the Chinese Communist party after references to China\u2019s Belt and Road initiative appeared on invitations to the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia Chinese United Business Association Federation (Acubaf), representing more than 50 associations and 1,000 individual businesses, is hosting a charity dinner on Friday to raise money for the Salvation Army and its bushfire appeal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/liberal-party-member-denies-links-to-chinese-communist-party-after-belt-and-road-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>References to Belt and Road initiative appeared on invitations to Chinese-Australian fundraising dinnerA Liberal party member who helped organise a Chinese-Australian business fundraising dinner has denied links to the Chinese Communist party after ref&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,412,6,50,571,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-business","category-china","category-liberal-party","category-sydney"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/12060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}