{"id":30212,"date":"2021-03-26T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T06:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/26\/chinese-actor-quits-as-burberry-ambassador-as-xinjiang-cotton-row-escalates"},"modified":"2021-03-27T03:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:41:24","slug":"chinese-actor-quits-as-burberry-ambassador-as-xinjiang-cotton-row-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30212","title":{"rendered":"Chinese public figures ditch western brands as Xinjiang row escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burberry and H&amp;M among brands targeted over stance on region at centre of Uighur abuses allegations<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chinese celebrities and politicians are racing to distance themselves from western brands as Beijing steps up a campaign to penalise those making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/nike-and-hm-face-backlash-in-china-over-xinjiang-statements\">accusations of abuses in Xinjiang<\/a>, including fashion companies that boycott the region\u2019s cotton.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/26\/chinese-actor-quits-as-burberry-ambassador-as-xinjiang-cotton-row-escalates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burberry and H&amp;M among brands targeted over stance on region at centre of Uighur abuses allegations Chinese celebrities and politicians are racing to distance themselves from western brands as Beijing steps up a campaign to penalise those making ac&#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":[41,50,576,53,67,52,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fashion","category-human-rights","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212","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=30212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212\/revisions\/30229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}