{"id":22275,"date":"2020-08-31T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/31\/australian-citizen-detained-in-china-amid-tensions-between-canberra-and-beijing"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T02:19:03","slug":"australian-citizen-detained-in-china-amid-tensions-between-canberra-and-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22275","title":{"rendered":"Australian citizen detained in China amid increasing tensions between Canberra and Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign minister, Marise Payne, says the Australian government was notified in mid-August that Cheng Lei had been detained<\/p>\n<p>An Australian citizen who works as a TV anchor for a Chinese state-controlled broadcaster has been detained as tensions between Canberra and Beijing escalate.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government was notified on 14 August that Cheng Lei, an anchor for a business show on the China Global Television Network, had been detained in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/31\/australian-citizen-detained-in-china-amid-tensions-between-canberra-and-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign minister, Marise Payne, says the Australian government was notified in mid-August that Cheng Lei had been detainedAn Australian citizen who works as a TV anchor for a Chinese state-controlled broadcaster has been detained as tensions betwee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"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":[43,50,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275","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\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22293,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions\/22293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}