{"id":21629,"date":"2020-08-13T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/operation-empty-plate-xi-jinping-makes-food-waste-his-next-target"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T00:00:39","slug":"operation-empty-plate-xi-jinping-makes-food-waste-his-next-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21629","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Operation empty plate&#8217;: Xi Jinping makes food waste his next target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant diners told to order one dish less than number of people under new system criticised as overly controlling<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, has launched a campaign targeting a new enemy of the country: food waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaste is shameful and thriftiness is honourable,\u201d Xi said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/leaders\/2020-08\/11\/c_1126353394.htm\">in a speech<\/a> published on Tuesday, describing the amount of food that goes to waste in the country as \u201cshocking and distressing\u201d, according to the state news agency Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/operation-empty-plate-xi-jinping-makes-food-waste-his-next-target\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant diners told to order one dish less than number of people under new system criticised as overly controllingThe Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, has launched a campaign targeting a new enemy of the country: food waste.\u201cWaste is shameful and thrifti&#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":[50,1069,1149,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-food-security","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","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=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions\/21648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}