{"id":21505,"date":"2020-08-08T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T05:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/08\/i-can-send-100-to-mr-trump-senior-chinese-official-ridicules-us-hong-kong-sanctions"},"modified":"2020-08-08T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T05:06:04","slug":"i-can-send-100-to-mr-trump-senior-chinese-official-ridicules-us-hong-kong-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21505","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I can send $100 to Mr Trump&#8217;: senior Chinese official ridicules US Hong Kong sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s most senior figure in Hong Kong defiant after US takes action against leaders over crackdown on freedom in city <\/p>\n<p>The head of China\u2019s Hong Kong Liaison Office, Luo Huining, has mocked sanctions announced by the US over the crackdown on freedoms in the city, offering to send Donald Trump $100 so he can freeze the asset.<\/p>\n<p>Luo, whose statement appeared on the liaison office\u2019s website on Saturday, is the most senior Chinese figure in the city. \u201cBeing put on the US sanctions list just means that I have done what I should do for the nation and Hong Kong,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3096577\/hong-kong-national-security-law-us-sanctions-11-individuals\">it read<\/a>. \u201cIsn\u2019t such a \u2018sanction\u2019 in vain as I don\u2019t have any assets abroad? Of course, I can also send $100 to Mr Trump for freezing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/08\/i-can-send-100-to-mr-trump-senior-chinese-official-ridicules-us-hong-kong-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s most senior figure in Hong Kong defiant after US takes action against leaders over crackdown on freedom in city The head of China\u2019s Hong Kong Liaison Office, Luo Huining, has mocked sanctions announced by the US over the crackdown on freedoms i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21506,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions\/21506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}