{"id":28485,"date":"2021-02-15T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/15\/libs-dems-warn-china-over-international-bullying-after-sanctions-threat-boycott-winter-olympics-uighurs"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:00:06","slug":"libs-dems-warn-china-over-international-bullying-after-sanctions-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28485","title":{"rendered":"Libs Dems warn China over &#8216;international bullying&#8217; after sanctions threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese newspaper said countries that boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over treatment of Uighurs would face retaliation<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrats have warned China against \u201cinternational bullying\u201d after a call by UK MPs for countries to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics was met by a warning of potential sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, joined with the Labour MP and former Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/mps-urge-british-olympians-to-boycott-2022-beijing-winter-games\">in demanding<\/a> that the government and the British Olympic Association act over the mass repression of the Muslim Uighur population in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, which campaigners say constitutes genocide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/15\/libs-dems-warn-china-over-international-bullying-after-sanctions-threat-boycott-winter-olympics-uighurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese newspaper said countries that boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over treatment of Uighurs would face retaliationThe Liberal Democrats have warned China against \u201cinternational bullying\u201d after a call by UK MPs for countries to boycott the 2022&#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":[41,50,1698,342,4,203,67,52,1716,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-liberal-democrats","category-olympic-games","category-politics","category-sport","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","category-winter-olympics","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485","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=28485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28487,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions\/28487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}