{"id":23856,"date":"2020-10-16T14:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/16\/china-ambassador-makes-veiled-threat-to-hong-kong-based-canadians"},"modified":"2020-10-16T14:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:32:04","slug":"china-ambassador-makes-veiled-threat-to-hong-kong-based-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23856","title":{"rendered":"China ambassador makes veiled threat to Hong Kong-based Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s ambassador warns Ottawa not to give asylum to Hong Kong \u2018criminals\u2019 amid diplomatic spat over crackdown in territory and Huawei case <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to Canada has appeared to threaten Hong Kong-based Canadians if Ottawa offers asylum to protesters from the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Cong Peiwu made the comments at a news conference on Thursday where he also accused Canada of being an \u201caccomplice\u201d to the US in detaining Huawei executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/meng-wanzhou-huawei-canada-us-extradition-cherry-picking-evidence\">Meng Wanzhou<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/16\/china-ambassador-makes-veiled-threat-to-hong-kong-based-canadians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s ambassador warns Ottawa not to give asylum to Hong Kong \u2018criminals\u2019 amid diplomatic spat over crackdown in territory and Huawei case China\u2019s ambassador to Canada has appeared to threaten Hong Kong-based Canadians if Ottawa offers asylum to pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[246,244,50,48,517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-huawei"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23859,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions\/23859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}