{"id":27773,"date":"2021-02-04T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/wuhan-wu-tang-clan-t-shirts-china-canada-row"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:35:59","slug":"china-rejects-canadas-explanation-of-wuhan-shirts-with-wu-tang-clan-logo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27773","title":{"rendered":"China rejects Canada&#8217;s explanation of Wuhan shirts with Wu-Tang Clan logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing refused to accept that shirts using W \u2018bat\u2019 logo were not an insult linked to the coronavirus<\/p>\n<p>A diplomatic row between China and Canada over an order of T-shirts bearing a modified logo of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has continued, with Beijing rejecting Canada\u2019s explanation that the shirts were not an insult linked to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s foreign ministry said this week that the shirts \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/canada-sorry-for-bat-like-wu-tang-symbol-on-diplomats-wuhan-t-shirt\">using the \u201cW\u201d logo of the Wu-Tang Clan but with the group\u2019s name replaced with \u201cWuhan\u201d<\/a> \u2013 was not intended as a slight. It apologized for any misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/wuhan-wu-tang-clan-t-shirts-china-canada-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing refused to accept that shirts using W \u2018bat\u2019 logo were not an insult linked to the coronavirusA diplomatic row between China and Canada over an order of T-shirts bearing a modified logo of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has continued, with Beiji&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"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":[244,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/27773","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\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions\/27775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}