{"id":16732,"date":"2021-08-01T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2021-08-01T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:30:14","slug":"eu-and-china-clash-over-macau-election-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16732","title":{"rendered":"EU and China clash over Macau election ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe European Union has criticised China over its decision to bar more than 20 candidates from standing for election in Macau.On Saturday the top court in the former Portuguese colony, now a special administrative region (SAR) of China, rejected an appeal against the decision that barred 21 opposition candidates from running in September\u2019s legislative election.Following the ruling, the EU issued a two-paragraph statement that described the decision as \u201ca detrimental step that runs counter to the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3143371\/eu-and-china-clash-over-macau-election-ban?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe European Union has criticised China over its decision to bar more than 20 candidates from standing for election in Macau.On Saturday the top&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16733,"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\/16732"}],"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=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}