{"id":7953,"date":"2019-08-28T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/yang-hengjun-australia-presses-for-writers-release-as-china-warns-against-interference"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:47:28","slug":"yang-hengjun-australia-presses-for-writers-release-as-china-warns-against-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7953","title":{"rendered":"Yang Hengjun: Australia presses for writer&#8217;s release as China warns against interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marise Payne says arrest on spying charges does not appear to be retribution for any Australian policies to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Australia will continue to press for Yang Hengjun\u2019s release, despite the Chinese government demanding Canberra stop interfering in the high-profile case<strong>, <\/strong>Australia\u2019s foreign minister has said, insisting the Australian\u2019s arrest on espionage charges is not a case of \u201chostage diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, an Australian author and pro-democracy blogger, has been detained, largely in solitary confinement, for seven months, and authorities in China have now announced he will be charged with espionage, an offence which potentially carries the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/yang-hengjun-australia-presses-for-writers-release-as-china-warns-against-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marise Payne says arrest on spying charges does not appear to be retribution for any Australian policies to BeijingAustralia will continue to press for Yang Hengjun\u2019s release, despite the Chinese government demanding Canberra stop interfering in the hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"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":[41,43,645,324,50,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-marise-payne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","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\/434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}