{"id":30480,"date":"2021-04-01T22:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/01\/tiananmen-square-watch-given-chinese-troops-withdrawn-from-sale-fellows-auction-house"},"modified":"2021-04-01T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:19:51","slug":"tiananmen-square-watch-withdrawn-from-sale-by-auction-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30480","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Square watch withdrawn from sale by auction house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch given to Chinese troops who took part in 1989 crackdown pulled by Fellows after vendor received online threats<\/p>\n<p>A luxury UK auction house has withdrawn from sale a rare watch given to Chinese soldiers as a reward for their part in the Tiananmen Square massacre, after it said the vendor had received online threats.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of the watch, depicting a green-helmeted soldier and the text \u201c89.6 to commemorate the quelling of the rebellion\u201d in Chinese characters, sparked questions over the ethics of profiting from an item <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/31\/tiananmen-square-anniversary-what-sparked-the-protests-in-china-in-1989\">associated with an atrocity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/01\/tiananmen-square-watch-given-chinese-troops-withdrawn-from-sale-fellows-auction-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch given to Chinese troops who took part in 1989 crackdown pulled by Fellows after vendor received online threatsA luxury UK auction house has withdrawn from sale a rare watch given to Chinese soldiers as a reward for their part in the Tiananmen Squ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[50,431,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/30480","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30481,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30480\/revisions\/30481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}