{"id":38240,"date":"2021-10-22T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/22\/smuggling-australian-rock-lobsters-into-china-a-national-security-threat-hong-kong-customs-chief-says"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:28:17","slug":"smuggling-australian-rock-lobsters-into-china-a-national-security-threat-hong-kong-customs-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38240","title":{"rendered":"Smuggling Australian rock lobsters into China a national security threat, Hong Kong customs chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Ho says activity undermines China\u2019s trade restrictions against Australia and she will \u2018pursue it diligently\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\"> get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rampant smuggling of Australian rock lobsters into mainland China is a national security threat, Hong Kong\u2019s new customs chief said Thursday as she vowed to crack down on the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Lobsters are one of a number of products from Australia that China has restricted imports of as relations between the countries plunged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/22\/smuggling-australian-rock-lobsters-into-china-a-national-security-threat-hong-kong-customs-chief-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Ho says activity undermines China\u2019s trade restrictions against Australia and she will \u2018pursue it diligently\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingRampant smuggling of Australian rock lobsters into mainland China is a national secu&#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":[41,43,645,50,48,468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-marine-life"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38240","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=38240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38240\/revisions\/38241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}