{"id":133270,"date":"2025-07-22T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133270"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:00:11","slug":"sanctioned-german-china-expert-visits-beijing-in-sign-of-easing-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133270","title":{"rendered":"Sanctioned German China expert visits Beijing in sign of easing restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe head of a German think tank sanctioned by Beijing four years ago has returned from a trip to China, suggesting that travel restrictions on the organisation may be easing.<br \/>\nMikko Huotari, the executive director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics) was in Beijing from July 14 to 17, after being invited by a leading Chinese think tank.<br \/>\nMerics was among the European institutions hit with travel bans and asset freezes in March 2021, in retaliation for EU sanctions on Chinese&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3319202\/sanctioned-german-china-expert-visits-beijing-sign-easing-restrictions?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 PostThe head of a German think tank sanctioned by Beijing four years ago has returned from a trip to China, suggesting that travel restrictions&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\/133270"}],"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=133270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}