{"id":22445,"date":"2020-09-04T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/pro-democracy-boycott-of-disneys-mulan-builds-online-via-milkteaalliance"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:09:38","slug":"pro-democracy-boycott-of-disneys-mulan-builds-online-via-milkteaalliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22445","title":{"rendered":"Pro-democracy boycott of Disney&#8217;s Mulan builds online via #milkteaalliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Yifei, who stars as Chinese heroine, has voiced support for Hong Kong police during suppression of protests<\/p>\n<p>Calls to boycott Disney\u2019s live-action remake of Mulan have been reignited ahead of its release on Friday, with Thai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/we-want-a-true-democracy-students-lead-thailands-protest-movement\">pro-democracy activists<\/a> joining those vowing to shun the film.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy over Mulan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/disneys-mulan-star-sparks-call-for-boycott-with-hong-kong-stance\">erupted last year<\/a>, when its star, Liu Yifei, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/disneys-mulan-star-sparks-call-for-boycott-with-hong-kong-stance\">voiced support for police in Hong Kong<\/a>, who have been accused of using excessive force against protesters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/pro-democracy-boycott-of-disneys-mulan-builds-online-via-milkteaalliance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Yifei, who stars as Chinese heroine, has voiced support for Hong Kong police during suppression of protestsCalls to boycott Disney\u2019s live-action remake of Mulan have been reignited ahead of its release on Friday, with Thai pro-democracy activists j&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,50,69,53,80,74,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-film","category-human-rights","category-protest","category-taiwan","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22446,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445\/revisions\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}