{"id":20905,"date":"2020-07-23T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/china-demotes-premier-league-football-broadcasts-say-reports"},"modified":"2020-07-23T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:17:26","slug":"china-appears-to-demote-premier-league-football-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20905","title":{"rendered":"China appears to demote Premier League football broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers link apparent decision to growing hostilities between UK and China<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state television appears to have demoted broadcasts of Premier League matches to lesser watched channels amid deepening hostilities with the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-07-23\/china-state-tv-blacks-out-english-soccer-amid-spat-with-u-k?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=business\">reported<\/a> on Thursday a source saying CCTV, China\u2019s state terrestrial broadcaster, would not be showing the final round of Premier League games, and observers linked the decision to the growing hostilities between Britain and China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/china-demotes-premier-league-football-broadcasts-say-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers link apparent decision to growing hostilities between UK and ChinaChinese state television appears to have demoted broadcasts of Premier League matches to lesser watched channels amid deepening hostilities with the UK.Bloomberg reported on Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,627,203,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-football","category-sport","category-uk-news","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\/20905","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20941,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905\/revisions\/20941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}