{"id":21848,"date":"2020-08-19T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/mike-pompeo-alleged-saudi-arabia-uranium-facility-yellowcake-china-democrats"},"modified":"2020-08-19T20:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:34:02","slug":"pompeo-pressed-on-claims-china-is-helping-build-saudi-uranium-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21848","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo pressed on claims China is helping build Saudi uranium facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats write to secretary of state over claims Beijing is helping to develop yellowcake factory <\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats have asked the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to provide information about China\u2019s alleged role in building a uranium processing facility in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>US officials have told journalists and nuclear experts they suspect a mill for producing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/dec\/05\/weapons-grade-uranium-process-explained\">yellowcake<\/a> \u2013 refined uranium ore \u2013 is being built by Chinese technicians in the desert near Al-Ula in the north-west of the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/mike-pompeo-alleged-saudi-arabia-uranium-facility-yellowcake-china-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats write to secretary of state over claims Beijing is helping to develop yellowcake factory Congressional Democrats have asked the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to provide information about China\u2019s alleged role in building a uranium proces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[41,50,415,212,472,1634,570,441,398,554,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-mike-pompeo","category-mohammed-bin-salman","category-nuclear-power","category-nuclear-weapons","category-saudi-arabia","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/21848","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21849,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}