{"id":20786,"date":"2020-07-21T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/uk-will-bear-the-consequences-for-hong-kong-decision-china-warns"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:35:03","slug":"uk-will-bear-the-consequences-for-hong-kong-decision-china-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20786","title":{"rendered":"UK will \u2018bear the consequences\u2019 for Hong Kong decision, China warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador to London calls extradition treaty suspension \u2018blatant\u2019 interference in Chinese affairs and a contravention of international law<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador has accused the UK government of blatantly interfering in China\u2019s internal affairs by suspending extradition with Hong Kong, and led a cavalcade of Beijing voices warning of consequences.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, announced his government would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jul\/09\/australia-offers-five-year-extension-hong-kong-visa-holders-extradition-treaty\">follow moves by Australia<\/a>, Canada, and the US, and formally suspend its extradition agreement with Hong Kong in response to Beijing\u2019s unilateral imposition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/12\/500000-hongkongers-cast-protest-vote-against-security-law\">national security laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/uk-will-bear-the-consequences-for-hong-kong-decision-china-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador to London calls extradition treaty suspension \u2018blatant\u2019 interference in Chinese affairs and a contravention of international lawChina\u2019s ambassador has accused the UK government of blatantly interfering in China\u2019s internal affairs by suspendi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,6,50,48,1070,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-hsbc","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20788,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786\/revisions\/20788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}