{"id":75840,"date":"2026-01-02T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/02\/china-threatened-to-cancel-key-trade-talks-after-uk-ministers-taiwan-visit-in-june"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:00:10","slug":"china-threatened-to-cancel-key-trade-talks-after-uk-ministers-taiwan-visit-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75840","title":{"rendered":"China threatened to cancel key trade talks after UK minister\u2019s Taiwan visit in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: diplomats had to scramble to contain fallout with Beijing after Douglas Alexander\u2019s trip to Taipei<\/p>\n<p>China threatened to cancel high-level trade talks with the UK earlier this year over a government minister\u2019s visit to Taiwan, the Guardian can disclose.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing told the British government it would pull its first trade and economic dialogue with the UK in seven years after Douglas Alexander, then a trade minister, travelled to Taipei in late June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/02\/china-threatened-to-cancel-key-trade-talks-after-uk-ministers-taiwan-visit-in-june\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: diplomats had to scramble to contain fallout with Beijing after Douglas Alexander\u2019s trip to TaipeiChina threatened to cancel high-level trade talks with the UK earlier this year over a government minister\u2019s visit to Taiwan, the Guardian can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155,"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":[50,4,74,1536,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-politics","category-taiwan","category-trade-policy","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\/75840","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\/4155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75841,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75840\/revisions\/75841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}