{"id":50091,"date":"2022-11-09T03:06:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/08\/china-shanghai-trade-fair-charles-michel-european-council-speech"},"modified":"2022-11-09T03:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:06:39","slug":"chinese-authorities-drop-eu-council-chiefs-speech-criticising-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50091","title":{"rendered":"Chinese authorities \u2018drop EU council chief\u2019s speech criticising war in Ukraine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European diplomats say Charles Michel video referring to Russia\u2019s \u2018illegal\u2019 and \u2018brutal\u2019 invasion was withdrawn from trade fair<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities dropped a trade fair speech by the European Council president, Charles Michel, that was critical of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, diplomats have said.<\/p>\n<p>The recorded message by Michel was meant to be one of several from world leaders and heads of international bodies played at the opening on Friday last week of China\u2019s International Import Expo in Shanghai. Three European diplomats said Michel\u2019s speech, which was to have been heavily critical of Russia\u2019s \u201cillegal\u201d war in Ukraine, had been removed, according to Reuters, which first reported the incident.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/08\/china-shanghai-trade-fair-charles-michel-european-council-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European diplomats say Charles Michel video referring to Russia\u2019s \u2018illegal\u2019 and \u2018brutal\u2019 invasion was withdrawn from trade fairChinese authorities dropped a trade fair speech by the European Council president, Charles Michel, that was critical of Russi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"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":[41,50,221,530,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/50091","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\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091\/revisions\/50095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}