{"id":21718,"date":"2020-08-15T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/uk-suspends-military-training-for-hong-kong-police-force"},"modified":"2020-08-15T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T14:30:44","slug":"uk-halts-military-training-for-hong-kong-police-as-relations-with-china-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21718","title":{"rendered":"UK halts military training for Hong Kong police as relations with China decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>End of cooperation \u2018because of pandemic\u2019 comes as extent of similar British contracts with foreign forces emerges<\/p>\n<p>The government has barred UK military personnel from training the Hong Kong police force and two other organisations amid worsening relations with China.<\/p>\n<p>Both the army and the RAF run limited drill instructor programmes for Hong Kong\u2019s police force, its Government Flying Service and its Sea Cadet Corps, but these have now been put on hold, the Ministry of Defence told the <em>Observer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/uk-suspends-military-training-for-hong-kong-police-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of cooperation \u2018because of pandemic\u2019 comes as extent of similar British contracts with foreign forces emergesThe government has barred UK military personnel from training the Hong Kong police force and two other organisations amid worsening relatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"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":[41,50,48,938,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-military","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\/21718","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\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions\/21719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}