{"id":20413,"date":"2020-07-12T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/is-too-much-trade-at-stake-for-britain-to-stand-up-to-beijing"},"modified":"2020-07-12T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T15:00:15","slug":"is-too-much-trade-at-stake-for-britain-to-stand-up-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20413","title":{"rendered":"Is too much trade at stake for Britain to stand up to Beijing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s defence of democracy in Hong Kong has put at risk both exports and Chinese investment in UK infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>When China\u2019s ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, warned this month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/china-could-prevent-hongkongers-moving-to-uk-says-dominic-raab\" title=\"\">there would be \u201ccountermeasures\u201d<\/a> if ministers interfered in Chinese internal affairs over Hong Kong, it sent a shudder through Britain\u2019s battered business community.<\/p>\n<p>After four months during which the pandemic has plunged the economy into a recession, this was not a message to fill boardrooms with joy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/is-too-much-trade-at-stake-for-britain-to-stand-up-to-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s defence of democracy in Hong Kong has put at risk both exports and Chinese investment in UK infrastructureWhen China\u2019s ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, warned this month that there would be \u201ccountermeasures\u201d if ministers interfered i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"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":[41,6,50,319,48,4,1536,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-trade-policy","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions\/20414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}