{"id":23104,"date":"2020-09-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/lib-dems-to-call-for-possible-sanctions-against-china-over-uighur-abuses"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:00:00","slug":"lib-dems-to-call-for-possible-sanctions-against-china-over-uighur-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23104","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dems to call for possible sanctions against China over Uighur abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Layla Moran will urge UK consumers to consider boycotting Chinese firms at party conference<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrats are to call on the government to consider sanctions against Chinese leaders over rights abuses against the Uighur people, and urged the British public to think about boycotting Chinese firms such as TikTok and Huawei.<\/p>\n<p>Layla Moran, the party\u2019s new foreign affairs spokesperson, is to use her speech to the party\u2019s annual conference at the weekend to castigate what she calls a lack of government action over Chinese repression against people in the western Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/lib-dems-to-call-for-possible-sanctions-against-china-over-uighur-abuses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Layla Moran will urge UK consumers to consider boycotting Chinese firms at party conferenceThe Liberal Democrats are to call on the government to consider sanctions against Chinese leaders over rights abuses against the Uighur people, and urged the Bri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"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":[50,517,53,1698,1496,67,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-huawei","category-human-rights","category-liberal-democrats","category-tiktok","category-uighurs","category-uk-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\/23104","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\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104\/revisions\/23105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}