{"id":59732,"date":"2023-11-09T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/09\/china-tells-uk-to-stop-using-trade-to-improve-taiwan-ties"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:53:12","slug":"china-tells-uk-to-stop-using-trade-to-improve-taiwan-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59732","title":{"rendered":"China tells UK to stop using trade to improve Taiwan ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK and Taiwan sign trade agreement they hailed as a first in fostering bilateral trade between Taiwan and Europe <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government has accused the UK of using trade cooperation \u201cas an excuse\u201d to enhance its ties with Taiwan, after the announcement of a bilateral trade talks agreement.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Taiwan\u2019s representative to the UK, Kelly Hsieh, and his British counterpart based in Taipei, John Dennis, signed an enhanced trade partnership (ETP). The agreement paves the way for future talks on green energy, digital trade and investment, among other trade-based issues. The UK is Taiwan\u2019s third-biggest trading partner in Europe and 21st largest overall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/09\/china-tells-uk-to-stop-using-trade-to-improve-taiwan-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK and Taiwan sign trade agreement they hailed as a first in fostering bilateral trade between Taiwan and Europe China\u2019s government has accused the UK of using trade cooperation \u201cas an excuse\u201d to enhance its ties with Taiwan, after the announcement of &#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":[41,50,319,74,1536,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-taiwan","category-trade-policy","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\/59732","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=59732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59733,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59732\/revisions\/59733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}