{"id":26114,"date":"2020-12-27T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/27\/liu-xiaoming-quit-chinese-ambassador-britain"},"modified":"2020-12-27T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T14:37:18","slug":"liu-xiaoming-to-quit-his-role-of-chinese-ambassador-to-britain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26114","title":{"rendered":"Liu Xiaoming to quit his role of Chinese ambassador to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critic of UK decision to ban Huawei from 5G networks to be replaced by China\u2019s vice-foreign minister<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s long-serving envoy to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, a staunch defender of closer UK-China economic ties and the imposition of new security laws in Hong Kong, is standing down, marking the end of an era in relations between the two countries that hit a high in 2015 but has since worsened markedly.<\/p>\n<p>He is being replaced by his country\u2019s vice-foreign minister, Zheng Zeguang, a former Cardiff University law student once tipped to become China\u2019s ambassador to the US, and still seen as a candidate for that post in a couple of years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/27\/liu-xiaoming-quit-chinese-ambassador-britain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critic of UK decision to ban Huawei from 5G networks to be replaced by China\u2019s vice-foreign ministerChina\u2019s long-serving envoy to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, a staunch defender of closer UK-China economic ties and the imposition of new security laws in Hong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,48,517,67,52,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-huawei","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26115,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}