{"id":132862,"date":"2025-07-15T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132862"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:25:31","slug":"china-lifts-its-sanctions-on-retired-eu-lawmaker-reinhard-buetikofer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132862","title":{"rendered":"China lifts its sanctions on retired EU lawmaker Reinhard Buetikofer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has removed \u201crestrictions\u201d on Reinhard Buetikofer, the former EU lawmaker it sanctioned in 2021, as it looks to normalise ties with the European Parliament.<br \/>\nThe move is expected to galvanise a new round of engagement, with an official meeting of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) and the China delegation of the European Parliament pencilled in for Brussels in October, according to several people familiar with the plan. This would be the first official meeting between the sides since&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3318351\/bid-normalise-ties-eu-china-drops-sanctions-it-imposed-retired-mep?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has removed \u201crestrictions\u201d on Reinhard Buetikofer, the former EU lawmaker it sanctioned in 2021, as it looks to normalise ties with the European&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}