{"id":57919,"date":"2023-08-30T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/30\/british-foreign-secretary-james-cleverly-beijing-china-visit-trip"},"modified":"2023-08-31T02:34:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:34:05","slug":"james-cleverly-meets-chinas-vice-president-amid-criticism-of-beijing-by-british-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57919","title":{"rendered":"Isolating China would be a mistake, says UK foreign secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On trip to Beijing, James Cleverly says Britain is \u2018clear-eyed\u2019 about its disagreements with world\u2019s second largest economy <\/p>\n<p>James Cleverly has defended his meetings with senior Chinese government members, saying it would be a mistake to try to isolate China, during the first visit to Beijing in five years by a UK foreign secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Cleverly said he believed China genuinely cared about UK views on human rights, following his meetings on Wednesday with China\u2019s vice-president, Han Zheng, and foreign minister, Wang Yi. However, there was no indication of a change in Chinese policy such as the lifting of its sanctions on British parliamentarians, the test for the trip set by the shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/30\/british-foreign-secretary-james-cleverly-beijing-china-visit-trip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On trip to Beijing, James Cleverly says Britain is \u2018clear-eyed\u2019 about its disagreements with world\u2019s second largest economy James Cleverly has defended his meetings with senior Chinese government members, saying it would be a mistake to try to isolate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,319,2899,4,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-james-cleverly","category-politics","category-taiwan","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\/57919","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57940,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57919\/revisions\/57940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}