{"id":56073,"date":"2023-06-19T20:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/19\/sunak-urged-to-rethink-visit-by-chinese-official-accused-of-deporting-dissidents"},"modified":"2023-06-19T20:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:35:26","slug":"sunak-urged-to-rethink-visit-by-chinese-official-linked-to-forcible-removal-of-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56073","title":{"rendered":"Sunak urged to rethink visit by Chinese official linked to forcible removal of dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Jianchao accused of directing fugitive recovery operations targeting regime\u2019s opponents<\/p>\n<p>A cross-party group of British MPs and peers has written to the prime minister urging him to reconsider a decision to allow a visit this week by a senior Chinese government official accused of overseeing the forcible repatriation of hundreds of dissidents back to China, including some from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Jianchao, the head of the international department of the Communist party of China central committee, is due to speak at the Chatham House thinktank and meet UK parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/19\/sunak-urged-to-rethink-visit-by-chinese-official-accused-of-deporting-dissidents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Jianchao accused of directing fugitive recovery operations targeting regime\u2019s opponentsA cross-party group of British MPs and peers has written to the prime minister urging him to reconsider a decision to allow a visit this week by a senior Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,319,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","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\/56073","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56074,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56073\/revisions\/56074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}