{"id":11478,"date":"2019-11-25T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T22:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/nov\/24\/dont-listen-to-fake-news-chinese-ambassador-pressed-over-detention-camps-in-xinjiang-video"},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T22:36:26","slug":"dont-listen-to-fake-news-chinese-ambassador-pressed-over-detention-camps-in-xinjiang-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11478","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t listen to fake news&#8217;: Chinese ambassador pressed over detention camps in Xinjiang &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These were the words of China&#8217;s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked&nbsp;about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country&#8217;s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast by BBC Panorama on Monday evening, was recorded prior to publication of the China Cables, a leak of what appear to be classified documents from within the Communist party. The BBC&#8217;s Richard Bilton asked Liu&nbsp;to tell him the truth about these camps. The ambassador responded: &#8216;There&#8217;s no so-called labour camps, they are what we call vocational, education and training centres. They are there for the prevention&nbsp;of terrorists&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/nov\/24\/dont-listen-to-fake-news-chinese-ambassador-pressed-over-detention-camps-in-xinjiang-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were the words of China&#8217;s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked&nbsp;about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country&#8217;s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,50,474,67,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-surveillance","category-uighurs","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11480,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions\/11480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}