{"id":52471,"date":"2023-02-09T04:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/cross-party-mps-shocked-by-foreign-office-talks-with-xinjiang-governor"},"modified":"2023-02-09T04:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:49:04","slug":"cross-party-mps-shocked-by-foreign-office-talks-with-xinjiang-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52471","title":{"rendered":"Cross-party MPs shocked by Foreign Office talks with Xinjiang governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Erkin Tuniyaz \u2018played central role\u2019 in persecution of Uyghurs, says inter-parliamentary alliance on China<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office has shocked cross-party opponents of the Chinese treatment of Uyghur groups by revealing that it has asked the Xinjiang governor for talks.<\/p>\n<p>MPs belonging to the inter-parliamentary alliance on China (Ipac) called it \u201cincomprehensible\u201d that \u201canybody within government would think it appropriate to meet with someone who has played a central role in the persecution of Uyghurs \u2013 crimes our own parliament has declared to be genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/cross-party-mps-shocked-by-foreign-office-talks-with-xinjiang-governor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Erkin Tuniyaz \u2018played central role\u2019 in persecution of Uyghurs, says inter-parliamentary alliance on ChinaThe Foreign Office has shocked cross-party opponents of the Chinese treatment of Uyghur groups by revealing that it has asked the Xinjia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2665,"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":[41,50,1879,447,4,52,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-islam","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52471","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\/2665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52472,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52471\/revisions\/52472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}