{"id":58334,"date":"2023-09-13T02:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/record-numbers-expected-biggest-arms-fair-london-dsei"},"modified":"2023-09-13T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:29:16","slug":"record-numbers-expected-as-europes-biggest-arms-fair-opens-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58334","title":{"rendered":"Record numbers expected as Europe\u2019s biggest arms fair opens in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt, Vietnam and Indonesia among countries sending delegations to four-day DSEI at ExCeL<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s biggest ever arms fair got under way in London on Tuesday with record numbers expected to attend, boosted by interest from countries with controversial human rights records.<\/p>\n<p>Authoritarian Egypt and Vietnam are among those sending delegations, defence sources said, as well as Indonesia and India \u2013 all countries whose arms-buying strategies have been affected by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/record-numbers-expected-biggest-arms-fair-london-dsei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt, Vietnam and Indonesia among countries sending delegations to four-day DSEI at ExCeLEurope\u2019s biggest ever arms fair got under way in London on Tuesday with record numbers expected to attend, boosted by interest from countries with controversial h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[401,709,41,403,221,53,212,419,398,58,52,930,430,1051,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-arms-trade","category-asia-pacific","category-egypt","category-europe","category-human-rights","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-technology","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","category-vietnam","category-weapons-technology","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\/58334","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58335,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58334\/revisions\/58335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}