{"id":46739,"date":"2022-07-25T19:37:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/beijing-urges-british-politicians-not-to-hype-the-china-threat-rishi-sunak"},"modified":"2022-07-25T19:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:37:57","slug":"beijing-urges-british-politicians-not-to-hype-the-china-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46739","title":{"rendered":"Beijing urges British politicians not to \u2018hype the China threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson asks for restraint after Rishi Sunak labels country UK\u2019s \u2018biggest long-term threat\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has urged British politicians to exercise restraint in their comments on China, saying \u201chyping the China threat\u201d would not help solve the UK\u2019s own problems.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Rishi Sunak\u2019s comments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jul\/24\/sunak-to-promise-curbs-on-china-as-uks-biggest-long-term-threat\">where he labelled China as Britain\u2019s biggest long-term threat<\/a> and pledged to close all UK-based Confucius Institutes, Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, declined to offer specific comments, saying the election of the next Tory leader is the UK\u2019s internal affair.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/beijing-urges-british-politicians-not-to-hype-the-china-threat-rishi-sunak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson asks for restraint after Rishi Sunak labels country UK\u2019s \u2018biggest long-term threat\u2019Beijing has urged British politicians to exercise restraint in their comments on China, saying \u201chyping the China threat\u201d would not &#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":[41,50,904,319,4,1158,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-conservatives","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","category-uk-news","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\/46739","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=46739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46739\/revisions\/46740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}