{"id":44007,"date":"2022-04-29T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/29\/trusting-china-to-give-a-fair-trial-sets-a-worrying-precedent-for-extradition-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T03:50:20","slug":"trusting-china-to-give-a-fair-trial-sets-a-worrying-precedent-for-extradition-in-new-zealand-anna-high-and-andrew-geddis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44007","title":{"rendered":"Trusting China to give a fair trial sets a worrying precedent for extradition in New Zealand | Anna High and Andrew Geddis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s willingness to accept reassurances from Beijing reflects political convenience rather than current evidence<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the New Zealand supreme court recently endorsed its government\u2019s view that China can be trusted to respect the human rights of the criminally accused and give them a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>While this ruling involved some rather technical matters of administrative law, it cannot be divorced from the larger geopolitical picture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/29\/trusting-china-to-give-a-fair-trial-sets-a-worrying-precedent-for-extradition-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s willingness to accept reassurances from Beijing reflects political convenience rather than current evidenceA majority of the New Zealand supreme court recently endorsed its government\u2019s view that China can be trusted to respect the hum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3042,"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":[41,50,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007","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\/3042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007\/revisions\/44008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}