{"id":24519,"date":"2020-11-07T06:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/06\/us-removes-shadowy-group-from-terror-list-blamed-by-china-for-attacks"},"modified":"2020-11-07T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:34:24","slug":"us-removes-shadowy-group-from-terror-list-blamed-by-china-for-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24519","title":{"rendered":"US removes shadowy group from terror list blamed by China for attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department says \u2018no credible\u2019 evidence the East Turkestan Islamic Movement exists <\/p>\n<p>The United States has removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said on Friday he was revoking the designation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2008\/aug\/06\/china.terrorism\">East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)<\/a> as a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/06\/us-removes-shadowy-group-from-terror-list-blamed-by-china-for-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department says \u2018no credible\u2019 evidence the East Turkestan Islamic Movement exists The United States has removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinji&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"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":[41,50,472,67,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mike-pompeo","category-uighurs","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519","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\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions\/24520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}