{"id":48078,"date":"2021-02-21T19:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/21\/boris-johnsons-warm-words-on-china-likely-to-infuriate-backbenchers"},"modified":"2021-02-21T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:10:57","slug":"boris-johnson-declares-he-is-fervently-sinophile-as-uk-woos-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/21\/boris-johnson-declares-he-is-fervently-sinophile-as-uk-woos-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson declares he is &#8216;fervently Sinophile&#8217; as UK woos China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM seeks to strengthen UK trade ties with Beijing at No 10 roundtable despite Uighur abuses<\/p><p>The UK is seeking to strengthen its economic and trade links with China after Boris Johnson stated he was \u201cfervently Sinophile\u201d and determined to improve ties \u201cwhatever the occasional political difficulties\u201d.<\/p><p>The prime minister\u2019s remarks at a Downing Street roundtable with Chinese businesses are likely to infuriate backbenchers in his Conservative party who want the government to take a tougher approach to Beijing\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/21\/boris-johnsons-warm-words-on-china-likely-to-infuriate-backbenchers\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/21\/boris-johnsons-warm-words-on-china-likely-to-infuriate-backbenchers\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM seeks to strengthen UK trade ties with Beijing at No 10 roundtable despite Uighur abusesThe UK is seeking to strengthen its economic and trade links with China after Boris Johnson stated he was \u201cfervently Sinophile\u201d and determined to improve ties \u201cw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,190,651,6,2763,1323,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48079,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078\/revisions\/48079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}