{"id":71115,"date":"2025-04-16T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/china-to-snub-uk-energy-summit-amid-row-over-infrastructure-projects"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:00:03","slug":"china-to-snub-uk-energy-summit-amid-row-over-infrastructure-projects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71115","title":{"rendered":"China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Absence of world\u2019s biggest clean energy producer will be welcomed by US pushing oil and gas exports<\/p>\n<p>China is to snub a major UK summit on energy security next week, the Guardian has learned, amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/14\/dont-politicise-row-over-scunthorpe-steel-plant-says-chinese-foreign-ministry\">growing row over the country\u2019s involvement in UK infrastructure projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US will send a senior White House official to the 60-country summit, to be co-hosted with the International Energy Agency. Leading oil and gas companies are also invited, along with big technology businesses, and petrostates including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/china-to-snub-uk-energy-summit-amid-row-over-infrastructure-projects\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Absence of world\u2019s biggest clean energy producer will be welcomed by US pushing oil and gas exportsChina is to snub a major UK summit on energy security next week, the Guardian has learned, amid a growing row over the country\u2019s involvement i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4347,"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":[41,6,50,2331,657,65,733,449,659,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-energy-industry","category-environment","category-gas","category-oil","category-renewable-energy","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\/71115","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\/4347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71115\/revisions\/71116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}