{"id":25614,"date":"2020-12-12T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/12\/switzerland-denies-deal-with-china-was-threat-to-dissidents"},"modified":"2020-12-12T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:23:44","slug":"switzerland-denies-deal-with-china-was-threat-to-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25614","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland denies deal with China was threat to dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says deal allowing Beijing officials to interrogate Chinese nationals was standard \u2018technical arrangement\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss government has strongly rejected accusations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/secret-deal-reveals-chinese-spies-free-rein-switzerland\">a deal allowing Chinese officials to enter Switzerland<\/a> and interrogate Chinese nationals put dissidents at risk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/switzerland\">Switzerland<\/a> entered into a so-called re-admission agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> back in 2015. The deal expired on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/12\/switzerland-denies-deal-with-china-was-threat-to-dissidents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says deal allowing Beijing officials to interrogate Chinese nationals was standard \u2018technical arrangement\u2019The Swiss government has strongly rejected accusations that a deal allowing Chinese officials to enter Switzerland and interrogate Chin&#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":[50,221,48,1287,74,67,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-switzerland","category-taiwan","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\/25614","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=25614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions\/25615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}