{"id":54572,"date":"2023-04-24T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/china-rows-back-after-envoy-denies-sovereignty-of-former-soviet-states"},"modified":"2023-04-24T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:04:57","slug":"china-rows-back-after-envoy-denies-sovereignty-of-former-soviet-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54572","title":{"rendered":"China rows back after envoy denies sovereignty of former Soviet states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says it respects status of countries such as Ukraine after ambassador\u2019s comments spark row<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/apr\/24\/russia-ukraine-war-live-drone-attack-on-crimea-repelled-russia-says-moscow-threatens-to-scrap-grain-deal\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beijing has insisted it respects the status of the independent nations that emerged from the USSR after \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d remarks by China\u2019s ambassador to France questioning the sovereignty of former Soviet states sparked outrage in EU capitals.<\/p>\n<p>France and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia were among the member states on Monday to summon China\u2019s envoys to account for the comments made late last week by Lu Shaye, which sparked a wave of outrage across Europe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/china-rows-back-after-envoy-denies-sovereignty-of-former-soviet-states\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says it respects status of countries such as Ukraine after ambassador\u2019s comments spark rowRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesBeijing has insisted it respects the status of the independent nations that emerged from the USSR after \u201ctotally u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3708,"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":[50,1164,2902,1034,470,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-estonia","category-latvia","category-lithuania","category-nato","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\/54572","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\/3708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54572\/revisions\/54590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}