{"id":6746,"date":"2019-08-11T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/british-governments-hong-kong-intervention-riles-china"},"modified":"2019-08-11T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:47:57","slug":"british-governments-hong-kong-intervention-riles-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6746","title":{"rendered":"British government&#8217;s Hong Kong intervention riles China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, underlines \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 in call to Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong chief executive<\/p>\n<p>China has lashed out at the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, after he spoke to Hong Kong\u2019s leader about protests that have morphed from a campaign against a controversial extradition bill into rolling street demonstrations demanding electoral reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Raab spoke to Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, and stressed the need for \u201cmeaningful political dialogue and a fully independent investigation into recent events as a way to build trust\u201d in the territory, the UK Foreign Office said. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/british-governments-hong-kong-intervention-riles-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, underlines \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 in call to Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong chief executiveChina has lashed out at the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, after he spoke to Hong Kong\u2019s leader about protests that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[50,48,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/6746","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}