{"id":9170,"date":"2021-01-16T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118009\/china-eu-investment-deal-smaller-countries-question-whether"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:00:15","slug":"china-eu-investment-deal-smaller-countries-question-whether-france-and-germany-have-their-best-interests-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/china-eu-investment-deal-smaller-countries-question-whether-france-and-germany-have-their-best-interests-at-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"China-EU investment deal: smaller countries question whether France and Germany have their best interests at heart"},"content":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s role in sealing a landmark investment deal between the European Union and China has raised questions in some other member states about whether their interests are being addressed.An initial draft of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) was approved by the two sides on December 30, narrowly hitting the target set by the two sides of finishing seven years of negotiation before the end of 2020.The final talks held\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118009\/china-eu-investment-deal-smaller-countries-question-whether\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s role in sealing a landmark investment deal between the European Union and China has raised questions in some other member states about whether their interests are being addressed.An&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170"}],"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\/925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9171,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}