{"id":32300,"date":"2021-05-21T02:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/eu-parliament-freezes-china-trade-deal-over-sanctions"},"modified":"2021-05-21T02:17:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:17:57","slug":"eu-parliament-freezes-china-trade-deal-over-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32300","title":{"rendered":"EU parliament \u2018freezes\u2019 China trade deal over sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tit-for-tat sanctions over Beijing\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs puts halt on investment agreement <\/p>\n<p>The European parliament has voted overwhelmingly to \u201cfreeze\u201d any consideration of a massive investment deal with China, following recent tit-for-tat sanctions over Beijing\u2019s treatment of its Uyghur population in Xinjiang province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the resolution, the parliament, which must ratify the deal, \u201cdemands that China lift the sanctions before parliament can deal with the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)\u201d. Some MEPs warned that the lifting of the sanctions would not in itself ensure the deal\u2019s ratification.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/eu-parliament-freezes-china-trade-deal-over-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tit-for-tat sanctions over Beijing\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs puts halt on investment agreement The European parliament has voted overwhelmingly to \u201cfreeze\u201d any consideration of a massive investment deal with China, following recent tit-for-tat sanctions o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,221,1448,530,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-european-commission","category-european-union","category-uyghurs","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\/32300","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32300\/revisions\/32301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}