{"id":12321,"date":"2019-12-20T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/20\/china-cools-sweden-business-ties-after-minister-awards-prize-to-gui-minhai"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T02:17:41","slug":"china-cools-sweden-business-ties-after-minister-awards-prize-to-gui-minhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12321","title":{"rendered":"China cools Sweden business ties after minister awards prize to Gui Minhai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business trips called off after Swedish culture minister awards rights prize to detained dissident<\/p>\n<p>China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai in defiance of Beijing\u2019s threat of \u201ccounter-measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between the two countries have been strained since Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish citizen who is known for publishing scandalous books about Chinese political leaders out of a Hong Kong book shop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/dec\/08\/gui-minhai-the-strange-disappearance-of-a-publisher-who-riled-chinas-elite\">disappeared in 2015<\/a> before resurfacing on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/20\/china-cools-sweden-business-ties-after-minister-awards-prize-to-gui-minhai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business trips called off after Swedish culture minister awards rights prize to detained dissidentChina has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai in defiance of Beijing\u2019s th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,221,849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-sweden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}