{"id":47542,"date":"2022-08-17T02:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/chinese-ambassador-warns-uk-not-to-cross-red-lines-over-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-08-17T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:03:11","slug":"chinese-ambassador-warns-uk-not-to-cross-red-lines-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47542","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ambassador warns UK not to cross \u2018red lines\u2019 over Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zheng Zeguang says Britain would face serious consequences if it were to \u2018follow in the footsteps of the US\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to the UK has said Britain would face \u201cserious consequences\u201d if it crossed the \u201cred lines\u201d over Taiwan and warned against following in the footsteps of the US.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/aug\/16\/taiwan-uk-us-china-nancy-pelosi\">Guardian opinion piece<\/a> that comes days after Liz Truss said China\u2019s actions \u201cthreaten peace and stability in the region\u201d, Zheng Zeguang wrote that Taiwan had become a \u201ctouchstone\u201d for bilateral relations that he warned were \u201cat an important juncture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/chinese-ambassador-warns-uk-not-to-cross-red-lines-over-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zheng Zeguang says Britain would face serious consequences if it were to \u2018follow in the footsteps of the US\u2019China\u2019s ambassador to the UK has said Britain would face \u201cserious consequences\u201d if it crossed the \u201cred lines\u201d over Taiwan and warned against fol&#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":[41,50,319,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-taiwan","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\/47542","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=47542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47543,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47542\/revisions\/47543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}