{"id":8881,"date":"2019-09-11T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/new-zealand-opposition-leader-criticised-for-alarming-stance-on-china"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T02:00:24","slug":"new-zealand-opposition-leader-criticised-for-alarming-stance-on-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8881","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand opposition leader criticised for &#8216;alarming&#8217; stance on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Bridges said he was \u2018amazed\u2019 by China\u2019s prosperity and also met Guo Shengkun, who is believed to have links to secret police<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s opposition leader has been accused of hijacking the government\u2019s foreign policy after displaying what China experts describe as an \u201calarming\u201d attitude during a visit to Beijing, and meeting a politburo member believed connected to the secret police.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Bridges spent five days in China last week and among his engagements was a meeting with politburo member Guo Shengkun, who was previously responsible for the ministry of public security. Guo is secretary of the powerful Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which oversees all law enforcement, including the secret police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/new-zealand-opposition-leader-criticised-for-alarming-stance-on-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Bridges said he was \u2018amazed\u2019 by China\u2019s prosperity and also met Guo Shengkun, who is believed to have links to secret policeNew Zealand\u2019s opposition leader has been accused of hijacking the government\u2019s foreign policy after displaying what China &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,50,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","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\/8881","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}