{"id":17609,"date":"2020-04-27T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/27\/eu-watered-down-report-on-chinese-disinformation-about-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:12:22","slug":"eu-watered-down-report-on-chinese-disinformation-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17609","title":{"rendered":"EU \u2018watered down\u2019 report on Chinese disinformation about Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign policy chief urged to explain claims that report was altered under pressure from Beijing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief is facing questions over allegations that a report about Chinese disinformation over Covid-19 was watered down in response to pressure from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Josep Borrell, the Dutch MEP Bart Groothuis calls for a \u201cformal and full explanation to the European parliament\u201d about the evolution of an EU report on disinformation, amid emerging evidence it was altered under Chinese pressure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/27\/eu-watered-down-report-on-chinese-disinformation-about-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign policy chief urged to explain claims that report was altered under pressure from BeijingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief is facing questions over allegations that a report abo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"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":[41,50,1069,236,221,530,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-digital-media","category-europe","category-european-union","category-media","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\/17609","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\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions\/17610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}