{"id":14674,"date":"2020-02-19T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T05:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/dissent-becomes-another-victim-of-coronavirus-as-china-cracks-down"},"modified":"2020-02-19T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T05:47:48","slug":"dissent-becomes-the-next-victim-of-coronavirus-as-china-cracks-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14674","title":{"rendered":"Dissent becomes the next victim of coronavirus as China cracks down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say epidemic poses gravest threat to authorities since Tiananmen Square \u2013 and Beijing\u2019s tight control could backfire<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus crisis in China has posed unprecedented political challenges to the authorities and prompted them to further crack down on speech freedom and tighten control over people in a desperate move to bolster the regime, say analysts and activists.<\/p>\n<p>After President Xi Jinping ordered \u201cresolute efforts\u201d to curb the spread of coronavirus in his first public remarks on the disease on 20 January, Wuhan was swiftly placed under lockdown. Millions of communities across China also began to implement draconian epidemic control measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/dissent-becomes-another-victim-of-coronavirus-as-china-cracks-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say epidemic poses gravest threat to authorities since Tiananmen Square \u2013 and Beijing\u2019s tight control could backfireThe coronavirus crisis in China has posed unprecedented political challenges to the authorities and prompted them to further cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/14674","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions\/14677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}