{"id":57061,"date":"2023-07-29T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/us-bars-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-from-san-francisco-apec-summit"},"modified":"2023-07-29T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:11:35","slug":"us-bars-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-from-san-francisco-apec-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57061","title":{"rendered":"US bars Hong Kong leader John Lee from San Francisco Apec summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive, who is under US sanctions over role implementing city\u2019s national security law, will not be invited to November event<\/p>\n<p>The United States will not invite Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, who faces US sanctions, to visit San Francisco during November\u2019s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.<\/p>\n<p>John Lee, Hong Kong\u2019s top official, was placed under US sanctions in 2020 because of his role in implementing what Washington deems a \u201cdraconian\u201d national security law when he was the city\u2019s security secretary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/us-bars-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-from-san-francisco-apec-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive, who is under US sanctions over role implementing city\u2019s national security law, will not be invited to November eventThe United States will not invite Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, who faces US sanctions, to visit San Francisco during No&#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":[1192,41,50,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apec-summit","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57061","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=57061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57061\/revisions\/57062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}