{"id":12619,"date":"2020-01-04T01:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/03\/why-we-must-hold-china-to-account"},"modified":"2020-01-04T01:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:08:16","slug":"why-we-must-hold-china-to-account-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12619","title":{"rendered":"Why we must hold China to account | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Libby Ruffle <\/strong>on China\u2019s economic gains and humanitarian failings, and <strong>Jim Denham <\/strong>on Beijing\u2019s global dominance<\/p>\n<p>Martin Jacques writes about the \u201cworld-transforming\u201d effect of China\u2019s economic growth on Europe and the US (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/31\/decade-china-west-china-ascent\" title=\"\">This decade belonged to China. So will the next one<\/a>, 1 January). Arguably, he\u2019s referring to states and corporations rather than citizens, though individuals and companies are likewise enmeshed in global capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Arsenal\u2019s distancing from Mesut \u00d6zil after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/dec\/13\/arsenal-distance-themselves-from-mesut-ozil-comments-china-uighur-people\" title=\"\">raised awareness of the persecution of Uighurs<\/a> in Xinjiang, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/dec\/22\/tesco-halts-production-at-chinese-factory-over-forced-labour-claims-christmas-cards\" title=\"\">Tesco\u2019s complicity in alleged forced prison labour<\/a>, have shown how western corporations have disdained humanitarian basics in favour of international profit \u2013 perhaps an indication of what to expect from future power shifts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/03\/why-we-must-hold-china-to-account\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libby Ruffle on China\u2019s economic gains and humanitarian failings, and Jim Denham on Beijing\u2019s global dominanceMartin Jacques writes about the \u201cworld-transforming\u201d effect of China\u2019s economic growth on Europe and the US (This decade belonged to China. So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[41,50,326,65,998,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-mesut-ozil","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}