{"id":47024,"date":"2022-08-03T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/chinese-ambassador-warns-british-mps-against-visiting-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-08-03T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:39:35","slug":"chinese-ambassador-warns-british-mps-against-visiting-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47024","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ambassador warns British MPs against visiting Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zheng Zeguang spoke of \u2018severe consequences in China-UK relations\u2019 if politicians go to island<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s UK ambassador has urged British politicians not to \u201cdance to the tune of the United States\u201d and vowed \u201csevere consequences\u201d should MPs set foot in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in London, the Chinese ambassador, Zheng Zeguang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/14\/chinese-ambassador-to-uk-barred-from-british-parliament\">who has been on parliament\u2019s sanctions list<\/a> since last summer, also reminded the British government of the joint communique the two countries signed in 1972, when they began to exchange ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/chinese-ambassador-warns-british-mps-against-visiting-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zheng Zeguang spoke of \u2018severe consequences in China-UK relations\u2019 if politicians go to islandChina\u2019s UK ambassador has urged British politicians not to \u201cdance to the tune of the United States\u201d and vowed \u201csevere consequences\u201d should MPs set foot in Tai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"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":[41,50,2185,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nancy-pelosi","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","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\/47024","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\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47025,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47024\/revisions\/47025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}