{"id":72796,"date":"2025-07-08T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/08\/germany-summons-chinese-envoy-over-laser-targeting-of-surveillance-plane"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:37:22","slug":"germany-summons-chinese-envoy-over-laser-targeting-of-surveillance-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72796","title":{"rendered":"Germany summons Chinese envoy over laser-targeting of surveillance plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin says incident risked lives of military personnel protecting Red Sea shipping<\/p>\n<p>The German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation helping to protect shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe endangerment of German personnel and disruption of the operation are completely unacceptable,\u201d the ministry said on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/08\/germany-summons-chinese-envoy-over-laser-targeting-of-surveillance-plane\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin says incident risked lives of military personnel protecting Red Sea shippingThe German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4308,"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":[50,533,3048,212,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-germany","category-houthis","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","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\/72796","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\/4308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72796\/revisions\/72797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}