{"id":145431,"date":"2026-02-02T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145431"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:07:21","slug":"starmer-faces-backlash-from-mps-over-china-trip-amid-claims-he-was-tricked-by-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145431","title":{"rendered":"Starmer faces backlash from MPs over China trip amid claims he was \u2018tricked\u2019 by Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced backlash over his trip to China amid claims that the UK government has been \u201ctricked\u201d by Beijing.<br \/>\nConservative former security minister Tom Tugendhat raised the issue of Chinese sanctions on British parliamentarians after Starmer announced that \u201call restrictions\u201d had been lifted on current members.<br \/>\nTugendhat, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, Senior Deputy Speaker Nusrat Ghani and Conservative former minister Neil O\u2019Brien were among those&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342158\/starmer-faces-backlash-mps-over-china-trip-amid-claims-he-was-tricked-beijing?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 PostBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced backlash over his trip to China amid claims that the UK government has been \u201ctricked\u201d by Beijing.&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\/145431"}],"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=145431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}