{"id":49442,"date":"2022-10-18T22:40:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/18\/china-claims-hong-kong-protester-entered-manchester-consulate-illegally"},"modified":"2022-10-18T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:40:17","slug":"chinese-diplomat-involved-in-violence-at-manchester-consulate-mp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49442","title":{"rendered":"Chinese diplomat involved in violence at Manchester consulate, MP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage shows figure believed to be Zheng Xiyuan kicking down poster and pulling pro-democracy protester\u2019s hair<\/p>\n<p>One of China\u2019s most senior diplomats in the UK was involved in the violence against pro-democracy protesters at the Manchester consulate, a British MP has said.<\/p>\n<p>Alicia Kearns, a Conservative MP, said Beijing\u2019s consul general in Manchester, Zheng Xiyuan, was seen \u201cripping down posters\u201d before a Hong Kong campaigner was attacked on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/18\/china-claims-hong-kong-protester-entered-manchester-consulate-illegally\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage shows figure believed to be Zheng Xiyuan kicking down poster and pulling pro-democracy protester\u2019s hairOne of China\u2019s most senior diplomats in the UK was involved in the violence against pro-democracy protesters at the Manchester consulate, a B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3372,"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":[41,50,319,1879,2239,48,2399,636,4,80,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-greater-manchester","category-hong-kong","category-manchester","category-police","category-politics","category-protest","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\/49442","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\/3372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49443,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442\/revisions\/49443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}