{"id":52631,"date":"2023-02-15T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T02:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/governor-xinjiang-region-china-cancels-uk-visit"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T02:52:41","slug":"governor-of-chinas-xinjiang-region-cancels-uk-visit-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52631","title":{"rendered":"Governor of China\u2019s Xinjiang region cancels UK visit after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office says officials would have been prepared to meet with Erkin Tuniyaz to raise human rights concerns<\/p>\n<p>The governor of China\u2019s western region of Xinjiang will not be visiting Britain this week, according to the UK Foreign Office, after a backlash from MPs over alleged human rights abuses in the region.<\/p>\n<p>British officials had said if Erkin Tuniyaz visited this week, they would have been prepared to meet with him to raise concern over the human rights situation in Xinjiang. But those plans faced backlash from politicians who highlighted human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/governor-xinjiang-region-china-cancels-uk-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office says officials would have been prepared to meet with Erkin Tuniyaz to raise human rights concernsThe governor of China\u2019s western region of Xinjiang will not be visiting Britain this week, according to the UK Foreign Office, after a backl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[50,1879,53,2021,4,2052,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-human-rights","category-iain-duncan-smith","category-politics","category-uyghurs","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52631","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52631\/revisions\/52632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}