{"id":29605,"date":"2021-03-10T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/china-summons-uk-ambassador-over-arrogant-article-on-media-freedom"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:51:30","slug":"china-summons-uk-ambassador-over-arrogant-article-on-media-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29605","title":{"rendered":"China summons UK ambassador over &#8216;arrogant&#8217; article on media freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Wilson incurs wrath of Beijing for WeChat post described as full of \u2018lecturer arrogance and ideological prejudice\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s ambassador to China has been summoned for a dressing down by the authorities in Beijing over an \u201cinappropriate\u201d article she wrote defending recent international media coverage on the country, the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Wilson\u2019s article in Chinese was posted on the official WeChat account of the British embassy in Beijing last week, amid already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/20\/uk-risks-chinas-wrath-by-suspending-hong-kong-extradition-treaty\">tense relations between Britain and China<\/a> over issues including Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/china-summons-uk-ambassador-over-arrogant-article-on-media-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Wilson incurs wrath of Beijing for WeChat post described as full of \u2018lecturer arrogance and ideological prejudice\u2019Britain\u2019s ambassador to China has been summoned for a dressing down by the authorities in Beijing over an \u201cinappropriate\u201d article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29605","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29605\/revisions\/29606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}