{"id":3567,"date":"2021-03-17T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:16","slug":"xinjiang-eu-ready-to-cross-a-threshold-with-china-sanctions-but-unlikely-to-match-hardline-us-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang: EU ready to \u2018cross a threshold\u2019 with China sanctions, but unlikely to match hardline US approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostEuropean Union officials gave the green light to sanctions on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in Xinjiang on Wednesday, the first of their kind since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.The penalties were approved at preparatory meetings for next week\u2019s Foreign Affairs Council, according to people familiar with the discussions, and will be formally adopted at a meeting of the bloc\u2019s top diplomats on Monday.Analysts described the move as having \u201ccrossed a threshold\u201d in\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3125866\/xinjiang-eu-ready-cross-threshold-china-sanctions-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostEuropean Union officials gave the green light to sanctions on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in Xinjiang on Wednesday, the first of their kind&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3568,"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\/3567"}],"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=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}