{"id":23895,"date":"2020-10-17T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/justin-trudeau-hits-back-at-china-after-threat-to-canadians-in-hong-kong"},"modified":"2020-10-17T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:49:07","slug":"justin-trudeau-hits-back-at-china-after-threat-to-canadians-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23895","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau hits back at China after threat to Canadians in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says Canada will \u2018stand up loudly\u2019 for human rights after China\u2019s ambassador against welcoming Hong Kong pro-democracy activists<\/p>\n<p>Canada will continue to defend human rights in China, prime minister Justin Trudeau has pledged, after a top Chinese diplomat warned Ottawa against welcoming Hong Kong pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to Ottawa, Cong Peiwu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/16\/china-ambassador-makes-veiled-threat-to-hong-kong-based-canadians\">warned Canada on Thursday <\/a>against granting asylum to Hong Kong activists, which he said could have consequences for the \u201chealth and security\u201d for the 300,000 Canadians living in the theoretically autonomous Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/justin-trudeau-hits-back-at-china-after-threat-to-canadians-in-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says Canada will \u2018stand up loudly\u2019 for human rights after China\u2019s ambassador against welcoming Hong Kong pro-democracy activistsCanada will continue to defend human rights in China, prime minister Justin Trudeau has pledged, after a top &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[246,41,244,50,48,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","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\/23895","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}