{"id":9972,"date":"2021-01-18T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/south-asia\/article\/3118257\/indian-sailors-stranded-due-china-australia-dispute-allowed"},"modified":"2021-01-18T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T22:15:06","slug":"indian-sailors-stranded-due-to-china-australia-dispute-allowed-to-leave-chinese-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/indian-sailors-stranded-due-to-china-australia-dispute-allowed-to-leave-chinese-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian sailors stranded due to China-Australia dispute allowed to leave Chinese coast"},"content":{"rendered":"A group of Indian sailors stranded off the Chinese coast for seven months, caught up in a trade dispute between China and Australia, have been allowed to leave for Japan, union officials said on Monday.The sailors had been stuck outside the Chinese port of Jingtang since mid-June due to a Chinese trade embargo on Australian coal. The embargo kept them from reaching China, but maritime law prevented them from taking off with a cargo that had been bought by Chinese merchants.\u201cOur seafarers who\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/south-asia\/article\/3118257\/indian-sailors-stranded-due-china-australia-dispute-allowed\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Indian sailors stranded off the Chinese coast for seven months, caught up in a trade dispute between China and Australia, have been allowed to leave for Japan, union officials said on Monday.The sailors had been stuck outside the Chinese por&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"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\/9972"}],"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\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}