{"id":25308,"date":"2020-11-30T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/australian-mps-unite-to-condemn-grossly-insulting-chinese-government-tweet"},"modified":"2020-11-30T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T07:38:00","slug":"australian-mps-unite-to-condemn-grossly-insulting-chinese-government-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25308","title":{"rendered":"Australian MPs unite to condemn &#8216;grossly insulting&#8217; Chinese government tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflammatory image posted by foreign ministry spokesman draws revulsion across political spectrum but disagreement on Australia\u2019s response<\/p>\n<p>An inflammatory tweet by China\u2019s foreign ministry spokesman about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan has emboldened hawkish Australian politicians who are pushing for Canberra to take an even stronger stand against Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>One human rights campaigner accused the Chinese government of being \u201cbreathtakingly, gobsmackingly hypocritical\u201d given its own record in places including Xinjiang and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/australian-mps-unite-to-condemn-grossly-insulting-chinese-government-tweet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflammatory image posted by foreign ministry spokesman draws revulsion across political spectrum but disagreement on Australia\u2019s responseAn inflammatory tweet by China\u2019s foreign ministry spokesman about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan has emboldened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1728,"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":[41,43,645,1759,50,557,1767,386,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-brereton-report","category-china","category-international-trade","category-penny-wong","category-scott-morrison","category-twitter","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\/25308","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\/1728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25309,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308\/revisions\/25309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}