{"id":72994,"date":"2025-07-22T20:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/22\/china-blocks-us-federal-employee-from-leaving"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:32:44","slug":"china-blocks-us-federal-employee-from-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72994","title":{"rendered":"China blocks US federal employee from leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exit bans used by China for reasons ranging from criminal investigations to diplomatic leverage tool<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has blocked a US federal employee from leaving China, the US state department has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The federal employee works for the US Patent and Trademark Office, and was visiting China in a personal capacity, according to the state department. \u201cWe are tracking this case very closely and are engaged with Chinese officials to resolve the situation as quickly as possible,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/22\/china-blocks-us-federal-employee-from-leaving\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit bans used by China for reasons ranging from criminal investigations to diplomatic leverage toolThe Chinese government has blocked a US federal employee from leaving China, the US state department has confirmed.The federal employee works for the US&#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":[50,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-us-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\/72994","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=72994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72994\/revisions\/72995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}