{"id":55203,"date":"2023-05-17T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/china-brands-liz-trusss-trip-to-taiwan-a-dangerous-political-stunt"},"modified":"2023-05-17T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:30:11","slug":"chinese-embassy-calls-liz-trusss-trip-to-taiwan-a-dangerous-political-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55203","title":{"rendered":"Chinese embassy calls Liz Truss\u2019s trip to Taiwan a \u2018dangerous political stunt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister will challenge Rishi Sunak to deliver on rhetoric about Beijing being a \u2018threat\u2019 to UK<\/p>\n<p>Liz Truss\u2019s trip to Taiwan this week is a \u201cdangerous political stunt\u201d, the Chinese embassy in London has said, as the former prime minister prepares to call on Rishi Sunak to declare Beijing a \u201cthreat\u201d to UK security.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to use a speech in Taipei City on Wednesday to challenge the prime minister to deliver on his rhetoric during last summer\u2019s Conservative party leadership contest, when he declared China \u201cthe biggest-long term threat to Britain\u201d. He also promised to close all 30 of the UK\u2019s Confucius Institutes, which promote Chinese culture on campus in higher education and in some British schools.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/china-brands-liz-trusss-trip-to-taiwan-a-dangerous-political-stunt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister will challenge Rishi Sunak to deliver on rhetoric about Beijing being a \u2018threat\u2019 to UKLiz Truss\u2019s trip to Taiwan this week is a \u201cdangerous political stunt\u201d, the Chinese embassy in London has said, as the former prime minister prep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"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":[41,50,2351,4,1158,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-liz-truss","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55203","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\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55203\/revisions\/55204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}