{"id":55797,"date":"2023-06-07T09:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T00:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/china-has-closed-unofficial-police-stations-in-britain-uk-minister-says"},"modified":"2023-06-07T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T00:33:04","slug":"china-has-closed-unofficial-police-stations-in-britain-uk-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55797","title":{"rendered":"China has closed unofficial \u2018police stations\u2019 in Britain, UK minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security minister, Tom Tugendhat, said an investigation of the sites did not reveal any illegal activity<\/p>\n<p>The UK security minister, Tom Tugendhat, has said China has closed its reported \u201cpolice service stations\u201d at sites across Britain, and that an investigation did not reveal any illegal activity by the Chinese state at these sites.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has previously said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/19\/inaction-on-chinese-police-stations-under-fire-over-tory-fundraiser-link\">reports of undeclared police stations in the country<\/a> were \u201cextremely concerning\u201d and that any intimidation on British soil of foreign nationals by China or other states was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/china-has-closed-unofficial-police-stations-in-britain-uk-minister-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security minister, Tom Tugendhat, said an investigation of the sites did not reveal any illegal activityThe UK security minister, Tom Tugendhat, has said China has closed its reported \u201cpolice service stations\u201d at sites across Britain, and that an inves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,1879,4,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","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\/55797","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55797\/revisions\/55798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}