{"id":6563,"date":"2019-08-09T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/09\/us-calls-china-thuggish-regime-for-targeting-american-diplomat-who-met-hong-kong-protesters"},"modified":"2019-08-09T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:56:50","slug":"us-calls-china-thuggish-regime-for-targeting-american-diplomat-who-met-hong-kong-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6563","title":{"rendered":"US calls China \u2018thuggish regime\u2019 for targeting American diplomat who met Hong Kong protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department angered by Beijing\u2019s apparent release of personal information about diplomat\u2019s family<\/p>\n<p>A US official has described China as a \u201cthuggish regime\u201d for disclosing the photographs and personal details of a US diplomat who met student leaders involved in Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement.<\/p>\n<p>The denunciation was unusually sharp and came as tensions between Washington and Beijing surged over an expanding trade war and military rivalry in the western Pacific, among other disputes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/09\/us-calls-china-thuggish-regime-for-targeting-american-diplomat-who-met-hong-kong-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department angered by Beijing\u2019s apparent release of personal information about diplomat\u2019s familyA US official has described China as a \u201cthuggish regime\u201d for disclosing the photographs and personal details of a US diplomat who met student leaders &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6607,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}