{"id":39863,"date":"2022-03-21T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=39863"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:00:22","slug":"ukraine-a-year-after-sanctions-eu-china-ties-face-new-defining-moment-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=39863","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: a year after sanctions, EU-China ties face new \u2018defining moment\u2019 on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA year ago on Tuesday, Clint Flores thought a colleague was joking when he told him via text message that he had been sanctioned by China.Flores was Malta\u2019s ambassador to the European Union\u2019s Political and Security Committee, a powerful group of diplomats who help mould Europe\u2019s foreign, defence and security policy.\u201cMy press officer texted me and my immediate response was: \u2018LOL, you cannot be serious.\u2019 But he was, and when I had time to think about it, I guess it was not a big surprise, because\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3171302\/ukraine-year-after-sanctions-eu-china-ties-face-new-defining?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 PostA year ago on Tuesday, Clint Flores thought a colleague was joking when he told him via text message that he had been sanctioned&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":39864,"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\/39863"}],"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=39863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}