{"id":38862,"date":"2021-11-13T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/us-businesses-lobby-china-related-bills-congress"},"modified":"2021-11-13T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T22:59:23","slug":"beijing-urges-us-businesses-to-lobby-against-china-related-bills-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38862","title":{"rendered":"Beijing urges US businesses to lobby against China-related bills in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letters to and meetings with business community have left some fearful of being seen as violating law on foreign agents<\/p>\n<p>China has been pushing US executives, companies and business groups in recent weeks to fight against China-related bills in the US Congress, four sources familiar with the initiative told Reuters, in letters to and meetings with a wide range of actors in the business community.<\/p>\n<p>Letters from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s embassy in Washington have pressed executives to urge members of Congress to alter or drop specific bills that seek to enhance US competitiveness, according to the sources and the text of a letter sent by the embassy\u2019s economic and commercial office seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/us-businesses-lobby-china-related-bills-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters to and meetings with business community have left some fearful of being seen as violating law on foreign agentsChina has been pushing US executives, companies and business groups in recent weeks to fight against China-related bills in the US Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"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":[6,50,234,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-us-congress","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862","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\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862\/revisions\/38863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}