{"id":58255,"date":"2023-09-11T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/11\/china-accuses-uk-of-slander-over-arrest-of-parliamentary-researcher-on-suspicion-of-spying"},"modified":"2023-09-11T17:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:51:04","slug":"china-accuses-uk-of-slander-over-arrest-of-parliamentary-researcher-on-suspicion-of-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58255","title":{"rendered":"China accuses UK of \u2018slander\u2019 over arrest of parliamentary researcher on suspicion of spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster worker had links to senior Conservatives and potential access to sensitive information<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2023\/sep\/11\/china-spy-suspect-downing-street-government-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-latest-politics-updates-live\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beijing has labelled as \u201cmalicious slander\u201d and a \u201cpolitical farce\u201d the scandal surrounding the arrest of a man in London on suspicion of spying for the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, it emerged that a parliamentary researcher with links to senior Conservatives and potential access to sensitive information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/sep\/10\/mps-anger-arrest-parliamentary-researcher-alleged-spying-china\">had been arrested<\/a> over allegations of spying for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/11\/china-accuses-uk-of-slander-over-arrest-of-parliamentary-researcher-on-suspicion-of-spying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster worker had links to senior Conservatives and potential access to sensitive informationUK politics live \u2013 latest updatesBeijing has labelled as \u201cmalicious slander\u201d and a \u201cpolitical farce\u201d the scandal surrounding the arrest of a man in London&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3929,"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":[50,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58255","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\/3929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58255\/revisions\/58282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}