{"id":13609,"date":"2020-02-03T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/beijings-israel-ambassador-sorry-restrictions-chinese-citizens-holocaust-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:42:58","slug":"chinese-ambassador-to-israel-likens-coronavirus-bans-to-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13609","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ambassador to Israel likens coronavirus bans to Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dai Yuming apologises after saying entry restrictions on Chinese citizens remind him of \u2018darkest days in human history\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s acting ambassador to Israel has apologised after likening the closures of several national borders to Chinese citizens to the turning away of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Dai Yuming told reporters at a English-language press conference in Tel Aviv that the \u201cerrors to limit or even ban entries of Chinese citizens\u201d reminded him of \u201cthe old days, the old stories that happened in world war two, the Holocaust, the darkest days in human history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/beijings-israel-ambassador-sorry-restrictions-chinese-citizens-holocaust-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dai Yuming apologises after saying entry restrictions on Chinese citizens remind him of \u2018darkest days in human history\u2019China\u2019s acting ambassador to Israel has apologised after likening the closures of several national borders to Chinese citizens to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,1069,1033,1005,212,220,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-holocaust","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-second-world-war","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions\/13610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}