{"id":5119,"date":"2005-11-10T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/11\/10\/in-europe-hu-faces-trade-and-human-rights-issues\/"},"modified":"2005-11-10T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T07:00:16","slug":"in-europe-hu-faces-trade-and-human-rights-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/11\/in-europe-hu-faces-trade-and-human-rights-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"In Europe, Hu faces trade and human rights issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2005\/11\/09\/news\/hu.php\" target=\"_blank\">The International Herald Tribune reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Prime Minister Tony Blair put human rights concerns along with ambitions to expand trade on the agenda for his meeting Wednesday with President Hu Jintao of China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will raise our concerns with them,&#8221; said Tom Kelly, a spokesman for Blair. &#8220;It&#8217;s best to deal with these matters in private rather than grandstanding, but it&#8217;s an element in our relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China has been lobbying the European Union to lift its ban on weapons sales. The British ambassador to China, Christopher Hum, said Sept. 2 that China must set a timetable to sign the international covenant on human rights before the EU will lift the ban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Herald Tribune reports: Prime Minister Tony Blair put human rights concerns along with ambitions to expand trade on the agenda for his meeting Wednesday with President Hu Jintao of China. &#8220;We will raise our concerns with them,&#8221; said Tom Kelly, a spokesman for Blair. &#8220;It&#8217;s best to deal with these matters in private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,34],"tags":[431,396,16065,7445],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-human-rights","tag-arms-embargo","tag-eu","tag-hu-jintao-u-k-visit-2005","tag-united-kingdom","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Europe, Hu faces trade and human rights issues<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/11\/in-europe-hu-faces-trade-and-human-rights-issues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Europe, Hu faces trade and human rights issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The International Herald Tribune reports: Prime Minister Tony Blair put human rights concerns along with ambitions to expand trade on the agenda for his meeting Wednesday with President Hu Jintao of China. &#8220;We will raise our concerns with them,&#8221; 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