{"id":22192,"date":"2020-08-28T20:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/china-european-charm-offensive-disrupted-by-activists-hong-kong-uigher"},"modified":"2020-08-28T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:20:25","slug":"chinas-european-charm-offensive-disrupted-by-activists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22192","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s European charm offensive disrupted by activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against treatment of Hongkongers and Uighurs accompany foreign minister\u2019s continental visit<\/p>\n<p>A network of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have disrupted a week-long European charm offensive by the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, by demanding European leaders raise the issue of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is a David v Goliath battle, the interventions underline how China is facing new headwinds as it seeks to expand access to the European markets, including 5G.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/china-european-charm-offensive-disrupted-by-activists-hong-kong-uigher\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against treatment of Hongkongers and Uighurs accompany foreign minister\u2019s continental visitA network of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have disrupted a week-long European charm offensive by the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, by demandin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,221,533,48,451,219,1165,67,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-germany","category-hong-kong","category-italy","category-netherlands","category-norway","category-uighurs","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\/22192","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22194,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192\/revisions\/22194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}