{"id":396746,"date":"2019-02-21T23:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-china-ties-hurt-by-defense-chiefs-threats-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T23:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:45:56","slug":"presstv-uk-china-ties-hurt-by-defense-chiefs-threats-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-china-ties-hurt-by-defense-chiefs-threats-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK-China ties hurt by defense chief&#8217;s threats: Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s Chancellor of Exchequer Philip Hammond has criticized the country\u2019s defense chief for irritating China with a series of military threats, saying London should adopt a milder tone vis-\u00e0-vis Beijing as it seeks better economic ties with the Chinese after Britain\u2019s withdrawal from the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hammond said on Thursday that Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson had caused problems in UK-China relations by vowing to send an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea, where China is involved in a territorial dispute with several countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Hammond admitted Williamson\u2019s comments had caused the Chinese to call off planned trade talks with the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a complex relationship and it hasn&#8217;t been made simpler by Chinese concerns about Royal Navy deployments in the South China Sea,\u201d said Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>The finance minister said he was \u201cdisappointed that the Chinese have reacted in the way that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/02\/21\/589177\/UK-China-relations-Hammond-military-threats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Chancellor of Exchequer Philip Hammond has criticized the country\u2019s defense chief for irritating China with a series of military threats, saying London should adopt a milder tone vis-\u00e0-vis Beijing as it seeks better economic ties with the Chinese after Britain\u2019s withdrawal from the European Union. Hammond said on Thursday that Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}