{"id":11462,"date":"2019-11-25T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/chinas-response-to-the-leaked-xinjiang-camp-cables"},"modified":"2019-11-25T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:00:30","slug":"chinas-response-to-the-leaked-xinjiang-camp-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11462","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s response to the leaked Xinjiang camp cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese embassy in the UK comments on the Guardian\u2019s reporting on the Uighur detention camp telegrams<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, there are no so-called \u201cdetention camps\u201d in Xinjiang. Vocational education and training centres have been established for the prevention of terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xinjiang is a beautiful, peaceful and prosperous region in China. Three years ago, this was not the case. It had become a battleground \u2013 thousands of terrorist incidents happened in Xinjiang between 1990s and 2016, and thousands of innocent people got killed. So there\u2019s an enormous uproar among the Xinjiang people for the government to take resolute measures to tackle this issue. Since the measures have been taken, there\u2019s no single terrorist incident in the past three years. Xinjiang again turns into a prosperous, beautiful and peaceful region. The preventative measures have nothing to do with the eradication of religious groups. Religious freedom is fully respected in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/chinas-response-to-the-leaked-xinjiang-camp-cables\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese embassy in the UK comments on the Guardian\u2019s reporting on the Uighur detention camp telegramsFirst, there are no so-called \u201cdetention camps\u201d in Xinjiang. Vocational education and training centres have been established for the prevention of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}