{"id":21642,"date":"2020-08-13T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/cartier-criticised-for-censoring-gay-couples-in-chinese-ring-ads"},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:30:22","slug":"cartier-criticised-for-censoring-gay-couples-in-chinese-ring-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21642","title":{"rendered":"Cartier criticised for &#8216;censoring&#8217; gay couples in Chinese ring ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers sceptical of commercials with two men identified as \u2018father and son\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>A new Chinese commercial for a Cartier ring has drawn scepticism by portraying people who viewers believe were meant to be gay couples as family or friends.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/n.miaopai.com\/media\/AtogPh1MdUB7vyCilf~DOra0-sx9~Y4D.htm\">60-second clip<\/a> shows several groups of people, including a man and a woman being obviously romantic, as well as two men cycling together, and two women. The commercial has no dialogue or text until the end, when it says: \u201cHow far would you go for love?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/cartier-criticised-for-censoring-gay-couples-in-chinese-ring-ads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers sceptical of commercials with two men identified as \u2018father and son\u2019 A new Chinese commercial for a Cartier ring has drawn scepticism by portraying people who viewers believe were meant to be gay couples as family or friends.The 60-second clip &#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":[41,50,72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-lgbt-rights","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\/21642","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=21642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions\/21660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}