{"id":28795,"date":"2021-02-23T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/canada-china-uighur-muslims-genocide"},"modified":"2021-02-23T06:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:27:48","slug":"canada-votes-to-recognize-chinas-treatment-of-uighur-population-as-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28795","title":{"rendered":"Canada votes to recognize China\u2019s treatment of Uighur population as genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament\u2019s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a> has become the second country in the world to describe China\u2019s treatment of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/uighurs\">Uighur minority<\/a> as a genocide, following a contentious parliamentary vote which is likely to further raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers approved the non-binding motion, brought forward by opposition Conservatives, to recognize China\u2019s actions in the north-western Xinjiang province as a genocide against Muslim Uighurs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/canada-china-uighur-muslims-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament\u2019s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nationsCanada has become the second country in the world to describe China\u2019s treatment of its Uighur minority as a genocide, following a contentious &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"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":[246,244,50,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","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\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions\/28797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}