{"id":57952,"date":"2023-08-31T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/31\/first-edition-james-cleverly-china"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:45:36","slug":"thursday-briefing-what-we-learned-from-the-foreign-secretarys-trip-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57952","title":{"rendered":"Thursday briefing: What we learned from the foreign secretary\u2019s trip to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: James Cleverly met senior Chinese officials for talks in Beijing \u2013 was there anything to gain?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-first-edition-newsletter-our-free-news-email\">Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good morning, or perhaps \u4f60\u597d (<em>n\u01d0 h\u01ceo<\/em>). Hopefully James Cleverly got at least that far on Duolingo before the UK foreign secretary\u2019s plane touched down in Beijing this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/30\/british-foreign-secretary-james-cleverly-beijing-china-visit-trip\">on a trip<\/a> aimed at resetting ties after a long period of tension over security, investment and human rights concerns at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first visit to China by a UK foreign secretary for five years. Remember the last time, when Jeremy Hunt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/jul\/30\/jeremy-hunt-makes-terrible-gaffe-about-his-wife-in-china\">somehow ended up announcing<\/a> that his Chinese wife was Japanese? Very odd.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/31\/first-edition-james-cleverly-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: James Cleverly met senior Chinese officials for talks in Beijing \u2013 was there anything to gain?\u2022 Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning, or perhaps \u4f60\u597d (n\u01d0 h\u01ceo). Hopefully James Cleverly got at least that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2421,"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":[41,50,319,2899,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-james-cleverly","category-politics","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57952","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\/2421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57952\/revisions\/57953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}