{"id":11763,"date":"2019-12-03T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/china-considers-banning-odious-us-politicians-over-xinjiang-criticism"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:00:49","slug":"china-considers-banning-odious-us-politicians-over-xinjiang-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11763","title":{"rendered":"China considers banning &#8216;odious&#8217; US politicians over Xinjiang criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Global Times suggests visa restrictions are coming and that Hong Kong-related sanctions are just the beginning<\/p>\n<p>US diplomats may soon be barred from entering Xinjiang, the far north-western Chinese region where more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are believed to be detained in internment camps.<\/p>\n<p>Hu Xijin, editor of the state-run Global Times, said Beijing was considering banning all US diplomatic passport holders from entering Xinjiang in retaliation for US legislation that would punish Chinese officials for human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/china-considers-banning-odious-us-politicians-over-xinjiang-criticism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Global Times suggests visa restrictions are coming and that Hong Kong-related sanctions are just the beginningUS diplomats may soon be barred from entering Xinjiang, the far north-western Chinese region where more than a million Uighurs and o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,67,47,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-uighurs","category-us-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\/11763","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}