{"id":54844,"date":"2023-05-04T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/end-megaphone-diplomacy-uk-hong-kong-british-diplomat-brian-davidson"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:23:40","slug":"end-megaphone-diplomacy-between-uk-and-hong-kong-says-top-british-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54844","title":{"rendered":"End \u2018megaphone diplomacy\u2019 between UK and Hong Kong, says top British diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consul general calls for \u2018constructive engagement\u2019 with territory as China\u2019s Han Zheng confirms he will attend king\u2019s coronation<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s most senior diplomat to Hong Kong has called for an end to \u201cmegaphone diplomacy\u201d between the UK and the Chinese territory, saying British and Hong Kong diplomats would make more progress with closed-door discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Davidson, the consul general to Hong Kong and Macau, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3219296\/turning-new-page-britain-wants-reinvigorate-ties-hong-kong-and-have-less-megaphone-diplomacy-says\">an interview<\/a> with the South China Morning Post that the UK-Hong Kong relationship had weathered \u201csome difficult headwinds\u201d over the past four or five years, but that \u201cwe are looking to lean back into a constructive engagement to see where we can collaborate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/end-megaphone-diplomacy-uk-hong-kong-british-diplomat-brian-davidson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consul general calls for \u2018constructive engagement\u2019 with territory as China\u2019s Han Zheng confirms he will attend king\u2019s coronationBritain\u2019s most senior diplomat to Hong Kong has called for an end to \u201cmegaphone diplomacy\u201d between the UK and the Chinese te&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,458,50,319,48,491,4,54,80,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-hong-kong","category-migration","category-politics","category-press-freedom","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\/54844","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54845,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54844\/revisions\/54845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}