{"id":13640,"date":"2020-02-03T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/more-surveillance-tighter-controls-chinas-coronavirus-crackdown"},"modified":"2020-02-03T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:08:30","slug":"more-surveillance-tighter-controls-chinas-coronavirus-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13640","title":{"rendered":"More surveillance, tighter controls: China&#8217;s coronavirus crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemic has given authorities justification for unprecedented crackdown on citizens<\/p>\n<p>A man stands next to a cart in a snow-covered field in Inner Mongolia, trying to carve a path. A drone hovers in the distance and a voice calls out: \u201cUncle, why are you still going out without a face mask? Don\u2019t laugh. Hurry up and get in your car and go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the man drives away, glancing back, the drone follows him and the voice warns: \u201cDon\u2019t come outside if you don\u2019t have to. Rest at home \u2026 What are you looking at? Go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/more-surveillance-tighter-controls-chinas-coronavirus-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemic has given authorities justification for unprecedented crackdown on citizensA man stands next to a cart in a snow-covered field in Inner Mongolia, trying to carve a path. A drone hovers in the distance and a voice calls out: \u201cUncle, why are you&#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":[41,50,1069,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/13640","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=13640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13641,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}